Word: pulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vice Foreign Minister Fulvio Suvitch was sent up from Rome to eat luncheon with Capt. Eden at the ornate French Foreign Office. Afterward a formal pretense of Anglo-Franco-Italian solidarity was made, but as one of the Latin statesmen said: "We have decided to let Sir John pull chestnuts out of Herr Hitler's fire, if he can. Later we will see whether or not we like the chestnuts. We will never consent to a German Army of the size that has been proposed by Hitler...
...pull out of a 10,000-ft. dive hard enough to push the g (gravity) reading up to nine, and pull me down into my seat with a force equal to nine times my own weight, or 1,350 Ib. . . . I took off and went up to 15,000 ft. and stuck her down to 300 m.p.h. I horsed back on the stick and watched the accelerometer. Up she went, and down into my seat I went. Centrifugal force, like some huge invisible monster, pushed my head down into my shoulders and squashed me into that seat so that...
...believe themselves lovers of the sweet, story-book atmosphere of the old South, will find more than enough solace for their souls in the current offering at the Met. For "Mississippi," starring Bing Crosby and W. C. Fields, very nearly runs over at times in its attempts to pull at the heartstrings of the audience...
Last year he was struck with dismay when his successor, Premier Tsaldaris, concluded the Balkan Pact with Yugoslavia, Rumania and Turkey. Venizelos saw that Yugoslavia was bound to get into trouble with Italy and Albania, that Greece might have to fight to pull Yugoslavia's chestnuts out of the fire. He objected also to the fact that Italy had not been consulted. Himself nobody's cat's-paw, he could not help feeling that no Greek but himself could ever do anything right...
Head of Gyp for three decades has been a suave, nimble-witted gentleman who today is more famed as the president-chairman of another and noncompetitive corporation. Montgomery Ward & Co. Gyp's Sewell Lee Avery was picked to pull the floundering mail-order house from its red depths. He did. Last year Ward earned $9,302,000 (11 mo.) as against a deficit of $8,712,000 in 1931. But Mr. Avery continues as Gyp's president, a fact which lets him in for unmerciful attacks from disaffected Ward stockholders. Once they cartooned Montgomery Ward...