Word: pulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Snake Pit suggests that Hollywood itself might even be cured some day of its own mild schizophrenia, which has made it live for so long in a world of fancy. It also suggests-at a time when Hollywood is desperately looking for a gimmick or a switcheroo to pull it out of-the "movie depression"-that good pictures may offer a radical but not impossible solution...
Dave Abbot slapped in a goal with less than half a minute remaining last night to climax a uphill fight and pull out a 4 to 3 win for the varsity hockey team over Brown at Providence. Tonight the team takes on powerful BC at the Arena...
...tree got trimmed, finally, but the taffy didn't pull. "We can always blame it on too many cooks," the participants explained. In addition to the dozen residents, ten guests, Mr. and Mrs. Peach, and their six-year-old daughter, Stephanie, all joined in the festivities...
...bolster the center-party governments on the continent by proving to the people of France and the Benelux nations that we will not desert them in case of a Russian invasion. There is still a very real segment of European public opinion that believes the United States will pull out and leave Russia to fill the power vacuum...
Campaign. In Petersfield, England, Commuter Raymond Francis Baird paid a $42 fine for pulling the emergency-stop cord on a 60-m.p.h. train, asserted: "I have written to the railway ... I will pull all trains up when they are going too fast...