Word: pulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hammerstein wrote the words one after noon sitting on his bed ; he needed a number to pull the somewhat rambling plot together. And as long as Americans sing, they are likely to remember those simple lyrics...
Arthur Creech-Jones is a quiet little man, but what he had to say electrified the U.N. After 25 years in Palestine, the British were ready to pull...
Drastic curtailments of University dining hall menus appeared probable last night as President Truman in a White House speech asked the entire nation to pull in its belt for European aid by not eating meat on Tuesdays, and poultry and eggs on Thursdays...
...Last week, as the five treaties finally went into effect, and U.S. troops were getting ready to pull out of Italy, Palmiro Togliatti's Communists were talking revolution; Tito's Yugoslav troops were bulging into Trieste and menacingly taking stations along the new Yugoslav-Italian frontier. In Rumania, Hungary and Bulgaria, Communist-backed minorities had matters firmly under control. Finland was tied to the Russian economic and security bloc. France was infiltrated with Communist power. China was gripped by civil war. Persia and Turkey lived precariously in the shadow of the Communist ax. Greece was directly threatened...
...nine months the U.S. had had no China policy beyond indecisive hostility and righteous advice for Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Government. From behind the scenes came rumors that the U.S. was preparing to pull out of China and rest its Asiatic defense on Japan and the Philippine Islands. Ostensibly, the Wedemeyer report was designed to help George Marshall decide what, if anything, to do next. The choice was between aid to China or abandonment of her 400 million people to the threat of Communism...