Word: pulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leaving from so-called "over-crowded" rooms; rather, quite a few departures can be expected to cause genuine prewar vacancies in rooms that were not unwillingly expanded by an extra man last September. And the possibilities seem quite slim that men in the recently crowded suites will quickly pull up stakes and shuffle themselves around so that the nice, round sum of 40 empty spaces is created...
...time, the truth was hard to come by. The aggrieved bus driver said that, when he failed to pull his bus out of the way of Rivera's car, the famed muralist had pumped bullets at him from a .45 semiautomatic. "Nonsense," cried Artist David Siqueiros. At the moment Rivera was supposed to have been squeezing the trigger, he was actually in Jose Clemente Orozco's apartment heaving charges of artistic ineptitude at his host and Siqueiros himself...
Said a Beeville resident: "They might as well have gone out and hanged themselves as to pull a gun on Vail...
...organization of their Bizonal area. They would probably not make a separate peace with Germany; but they would make a Germany. Since the western segment of that country is far stronger than the eastern, the U.S. and Britain could expect the almost unanimous German feeling for national unity to pull eastern Germany toward the West as a sun pulls a smaller planet...
...Walter J. Muller. Forty cops sang The Beautiful Blue Danube for him. Many Germans fear that the U.S. will forget the Danube, the Rhine and the Oder-especially the Oder, where the Russians are. They believe that the Russians at the London Conference will propose that all four powers pull out. Much as the Germans would like that, on its face, they know that if the U.S. withdraws, it withdraws across an ocean; if Russia withdraws, it merely backs up behind the Polish border...