Word: pulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jaakko Mikkola's track team will be aiming for third place behind Army and Yale in today's second annual Heptagonal Meet at Briggs Cage and the Garden. Mikkola has acknowledged the might of the Cadets and Elis, but said a couple of days ago that the Crimson may pull some surprises on some of the other seven teams in the meet...
...have grave doubts Japan has any value in a war with Russia. I think it might be better to pull out before the war started ... I am not so certain we could hold Japan, nor am I certain it would be worthwhile as long as we have Okinawa and the Philippines...
That did it. Two hours later, egged on by a wildly cheering crowd, Haiti's Chamber of Deputies met in extraordinary session at Port-au-Prince to "force the chicken hawk of the East to pull in his claws." The Deputies passed laws which 1) authorized $3,000,000 for national defense, 2) revived military service, 3) created a committee to investigate subversive activity by anyone over 16. The crowd yelled itself hoarse when Deputy Philippe Charlier cried: "We'll fight them with machetes and penknives if necessary. No Haitian is afraid of a Dominican even if they...
...enough to shoulder a baseball bat, he started playing ball. "Just as soon as the snow was off the streets," Stuffy explains, "we'd be out playing under the lights with a yarn ball our mothers would knit for us. When we knocked the yarn apart, we'd pull it back together with black tape." Stuffy did his share of the knocking. In fact, his nickname resulted from it. Whenever the youngster would make a hit or come up with a hard grounder, the older boys he played with would yell, "That's the stuff...
...famed sales manager of the Earthworm Tractor Co., were not up to his neck in trouble. When last heard from (in Author William Hazlett Upson's latest story), Botts had bogged a scraper so deep in the Canadian muskeg that not even his mighty Earthworm tractor could pull it out. But Botts managed it; he used rockets, for a jet-assisted takeoff...