Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Personality, roles and situations all work in the chemistry that induces excessive chatter. And certain subjects pull the stopper on even temperate people. Food, for example, instigates a preposterous quantity of repetitious chat. Sex? It has already provoked such an excess of discussion-functional and gynecological-that it is fair to rule all future comment on the subject may be surplus...
...best way (and the only way) for Harvard to stop leading scorers Kelly Odell, Liz Betts, and Syrena Carlbom will be to control the puck. If the Crimson can pull that off, there will be a sated squad in Cambridge and a busload of leftovers returning to New Jersey...
Until about the seventh grade, boys and girls do equally well at math. In early high school, when the emphasis shifts from simple computation to mathematical reasoning, the boys tend to pull ahead and stay there-through college and in later life...
...freestyle, Mike Coglin went out in front early only to have Mowry pull ahead in the middle of the race. Coglin turned it on with less than 300 yards left to regain the lead, but the gritty Cadet pushed him right to the finish...
...while pointing at his stomach, rid him of an ulcer and improved his stamina. "I wasn't too unhappy then," he quips, "because you don't use your brain much." The experience brought him closer to Chinese rural life. "Agricultural is hard, back-breaking work," he recalls. "When you pull a handcart of grain mired in mud, it takes a lot of willpower. It gave me a sense of what peasants do." The experience seems to have given Zhao what James C. Thomson Jr., curator of the Nieman Foundation, calls "the languid strength of a bamboo or willow--flexible though...