Word: pulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...particularly of the Sudetens, and thus spike Hitler's handiest excuse for an invasion. Father Andreas Hlinka, leader of a Slovak ecclesiastical party, has demanded autonomy for his racial group, but his party polled less votes than in previous years in the recent municipal elections. Other minority protests pull even less weight. But one Czechoslovakian minority problem the world will not forget in a hurry is that of the Sudetens...
...being turned inside out for the Führer's cold eyes. Tons of sweet oil are poured on the creaking Rome-Berlin axis to keep it cool. But the alliance is unnatural. It is a faux ménage after all. The two people will never pull together. The Teuton looks down on a canaille of unwashed peasants; the Italian recoils from the Nordic boor whose barbarous jargon hurts Dantesque eardrums. The two flags cannot wave together for long. Compared with the noble Roman fasces, Hitler's Aryan swastika is a scrawl from a child...
...broad Yellow River and the railway. For nine days Chinese forces, often behind providential screens of swirling yellow dust, charged at the Japanese ranks, attempted to wipe out the 10,000. Finally Japanese reinforcements forded the river from the north under artillery bombardment, helped Japan's "Lawrence" pull the cork out of the bottle...
With the last workout of the season on the Charles scheduled for this afternoon, the Harvard crews will tomorrow pull anchor and start for Red Top in the final preparation for the Yale races Thursday and Friday, June...
...Last fortnight California's William Gibbs McAdoo, facing a tough four-corner fight, was able to pull an encouraging "Dear Mac" letter from his pocket...