Word: pulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Republican Party, age 90, stood uncertainly, somnolently before a crisis in its history, and a bigger crisis in the nation's history. It had less than five months to pull itself together. In Chicago next June, the G.O.P. must try to choose a Presidential candidate and architect a Party platform which U.S. voters will like better than they like Franklin Roosevelt and the late New Deal...
...procedure for removing mines, after they were located, was to attach a long rope, walk off to a safe distance, or crouch in a shell hole and pull. But the ingenious German mine layers frequently mined the shell holes, too, and other means had to be devised...
...rail terminus, communications center, headquarters of the Second Tank Army. After three days of fighting Tito reported that the Partisans had taken half the town, were moving through it block by block. Then the Germans rushed tanks and reinforcements from the northeast. Short of munitions, the Partisans had to pull...
John Barrymore lived all his brilliant, violent, much-married life in glass houses. No biography can hope to pull up any blinds; it can only poke under carpets and rummage in desk drawers. In Good Night, Sweet Prince (Viking; $3.50) Barrymore's lusty pal Gene Fowler (The Great Mouthpiece, The Great Magoo) has done just that. Gaudy, gossipy, with a sob-sister lining to its Rabelaisian hide, Good Night, Sweet Prince honors Barrymore without emasculating him. From it the Great Profile paradoxically emerges both more tarnished and more dazzling, more fantastic and more real...
Fish & Foul. Such were the churning waters from which the U.S. State Department was trying to pull an acceptable fish. But much of the Department's energy was spent in squabbling over what sort of fish it wanted and what to use for bait. Caught unawares and still in a stew, the Department showed clearly that it had no unified policy, that it was hardly more than a maze of corridors full of warring tribes. Washington newsmen heard that the Department looked to the PIR to set matters aright; that the PIR was nothing but a Soviet tool...