Word: pulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Toward Unity. Thus, slowly and painfully, teaching and being taught, ECAmer-icans abroad were helping Europe pull itself together. Much indeed had yet to be done. In the process of recovery and reconstruction with ECAid, the participating nations had talked, more than acted on, unity. But they had taken two notable steps...
...Navy veteran), Wally wears his swimming fame lightly, but diligently grinds through 2,000 yards of daily practice. Iowa Coach David Armbruster says his star pupil has "a natural, aggressive heart," and better yet, "horses under the hood." Wally's own formula, he says, is knowing when to pull out when other swimmers are relaxing, and "usually that's enough to sneak me in." Swimming that way, he managed to sneak in ahead of ex-Yaleman Alan Ford at London last year; but he has yet, swimming that way, to sneak inside Ford's world record...
...official control of the corporation at a time when a strong hand was needed to combat dropping sales and rising competition. A smart, hard-working man who spends twelve hours a day in the office, he was probably the only man in K-F who might be able to pull the company through its troubles...
...million trying to get profitably established, announced that it was forced to curtail operations. That left only two small outfits drilling for new fields in Colombia. Three big U.S. companies (Socony-Vacuum, Texaco and Jersey Standard's Tropical) have put too much money into old, producing fields to pull out now; but they have virtually given up trying to find new oil for the present...
...indoor season on a glorious note of triumph Saturday night in New Haven's riding academy, as they galloped from behind in the fourth and final chukker to defeat the Yale J.V. squad, 12 to 10. The poloists had to score five goals in the last minutes to pull out their upset...