Word: pulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reds were doing everything they could think of to disrupt this week's elections, which would lead to a free Korean government in the south. They had proclaimed a People's Republic of All Korea. Then, last week, Russia announced that "necessary arrangements" had been made to pull its troops out of Korea entirely "in order to make American troops withdraw from Korea simultaneously." The Russian-controlled North Korea radio broadcast an election-eve message to U.S. Zone Commander Lieut. General John R. Hodge: "You had better get out of Korea with your clothes packed...
...screamed. (For the Congressional Record he edited this to "You poor, misguided creatures.") "I cannot understand you. You did what the New Dealers shied away from doing for 16 long years." He threatened the South with revenge. "We are going to remove all quotas on cotton imports . . . If you pull us down, by the eternal, we will pull you down with...
...commitment. It was not forthcoming. Pundit Walter Lippmann and others noted that the U.S. could hardly help going to war if Russia attacked Western Europe, since U.S. troops east of the Rhine would have to be pushed aside first. But Europeans wondered whether, in that case, the U.S. would pull its troops out or pour more...
Homecoming (MGM) features Clark Gable as an army surgeon named Ulysses and Lana Turner as an army nurse called Snapshot. At first they don't like each other at all, but after she has helped pull on his rubber gloves a few times, they begin to feel different...
...couldn't pull off a deal like that in any other country. Americans are uniquely prone to isolate emotion from life, and so cut off it inevitably turns to cheap sentimentality. The treatment of mothers is one indication of the general American attitude toward women; the plight of the wife ("the little woman") is well enough known and horrible. And so far she is Day-less. As for mothers, their main trouble is usually that they have too much to do in the early years and not enough later on. The plight of the American woman whose children...