Word: pulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...football coaches' luncheon this past Monday, Rip Engle was too busy at Providence to make a personal appearance. In his place, he sent Bob Priestley, end coach, to represent him. Priestley made one statement, "We're not going to pull any punches against Harvard...
...General could pull France along to economic recovery, however, his other "shortcomings" might be swallowed with a minimum of disgust. For France cannot have political stability without this recovery, and a chaotic France means, to a large extent, a chaotic Europe. But it is unlikely that de Gaulle can bring recovery back to France. His advent to power will only mean a further split in that country, and in Europe. The West must place its hopes with the socialist moderates who now hold shaky authority, and recognize that a de Gaulle government will be a damaging defeat for the free...
...decision to pull out of Mukden came during an emergency conference called by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek with his top generals in Peiping. The meeting was followed by the government's recapture of Yingkow, opening a seaport and a narrow, 100-mile corridor from the Mukden pocket (TIME...
...Tech, Oppie had been at home with the blackboard and the slipstick. At Los Alamos he proved that he could direct experimental physics. And he had the capacity to make prima donnas pull together, and ordinary people work like the devil. He worked like the devil himself-sometimes as much as 20 hours a day. A six-footer, he shrank...
Back to Nashua. Textron, Inc., which had vowed to pull out of its Nashua (N.H.) textile mills because of high costs, did some backtracking. After union and public officials protested about the loss of jobs, Textron agreed to sell the mills to a non-profit organization formed by local businessmen, lease part of the mills back for ten years. Of the town's 3,500 Textron workers, 1,800 will thus be assured of steady employment...