Word: pulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Oxford got the better start. At Craven's Steps, Cambridge, pulling with an easier stroke, was three quarters of a length in front. The Cambridge coxswain, Duckworth, hugged the Surrey bank for smoother water. Close to shore, his shell got better run, led by three lengths at Hammersmith Bridge, half way on the 4¼-mile course. The Oxford coxswain, Bryan, steered smartly toward the Surrey side. For the first time in the race his boat kept up but at Duke's Meadow bend a strong tide-pull stole the gain. At Chiswick, with Oxford nearly four lengths...
...that Premier Hepburn's Hydro bill might be a colossal bluff. Having put the fear of God and the Premier into the hearts of the private power companies in Quebec. Hydro might yet negotiate new contracts at reduced rates. With that to his credit, the Premier would quietly pull the teeth from his toothy measure...
Since Japan flouted its League obligations by puppetizing Manchuria before withdrawing from the League, the inescapable inference from Dr. Hoo's protest, an inference he adroitly left for others to draw, is that Japan cannot pull out of the League. "I deplore M. Avenol's conception of Japan's obligations, a conception which would weaken the Covenant!" cried Dr. Hoo. "Under such a conception any country could violate the Covenant and withdraw with impunity...
Some boys ran to the wreckage, picked up Pilot Collins. He was smiling feebly. "Pull me out, boys," he gasped, "I'm all through." Someone wiped the blood from his face with a handkerchief. "Never mind that," he whispered. "I'm done." They lifted him out of the debris and laid him on the grass to die. Soon the photographers arrived...
...your pot and go into the woods. Just as you get ready to boil your cat, a wind will come through the woods and bow down the limbs of trees and sweep the ground clean for a place for the pot. After you boil the black cat, you pull the bones, every one of them, between your teeth. But first the wind blows and sweeps the ground clean around the bones. Then you walk to a signboard for nine straight mornings. Each time you walk backward nine steps and forward nine steps, cussing God and Jesus Christ with every breath...