Word: pulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...giant does not know what to do with his strength; the woman is in disgrace because she is unfaithful to her husband and because she was a beggar when she married; everyone in the marketplace cheats the Jew and spits on him. The bond that draws slowly tighter, pulling them together, although not strong enough to keep them so, is a common rebellion, a disgust for the violent life of the town square, which the Jew and the woman have long shared, and which the woman gradually pushes into the fuddled head of her lover, the big longshoreman. There...
...came to. I then drew my gun and held it hanging down in my hand, because Gillard was even more powerful than my secretary, and was gradually getting the better of him. I came too near the scuffle and Gillard grabbed the gun. He couldn't pull it out of my hand, but swung it towards his wife and children at the end of the room and tried to get at the trigger to shoot his wife. He grabbed my hand and in the struggle the gun, for a cause unknown to me, went off and shot Gillard. Another...
...University boat appeared to be still recuperating from the shake-up effected Monday afternoon. Captain Dickey appearing out of place at bow with a long pull-through acquired from a season in the waist of the boat in contrast to the shorter stroke of the number two man, S. W. Swaim '31. J. M. Erickson '32 has accustomed himself to the number seven berth quickly, and seems to be well qualified to fulfill the responsibilities of that position...
...gunner from New Haven. Next day, however, Kretschman was not important. Lanky Stevenson M. Crothers from Chestnut Hill, Pa., hung his coat on a nail, put on an old sweater and a white eyeshade, raised his single-barrelled, closed-bore Daley gun and giving a gruff bark that meant "Pull!" each time he was ready, knocked the skimming little discs to pieces with dismaying regularity...
Naval aircraft in bombing maneuvers used to fly at a safe altitude directly over their target, "lay their eggs," hope for a hit. Rarely were they rewarded. Newer strategy is to dive upon the enemy battleship, release the bombs, pull up sharply?the bomb continuing the path of the dive. Under this terrific strain, wings of an ordinary airplane would crumple like paper...