Word: pulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lifted religion so far above the realm of creed and sect one can feel its pull and power...
...last week the Eisenhower bandwagon, having been given a pull here and a push there, was beginning to roll. "Ike for President" buttons were sprouting in growing numbers. George Allen, whose first loyalty is to Harry Truman, was anxiously stamping out rumors that he had his shoulder to the wheel, that he was even starting to work on an Eisenhower campaign fund. Then, on the day before New Year's, while General Ike was vacationing in Florida with his wife, Cissie Patterson's Washington Times Herald-which likes a sensation-gave the wagon a hefty shove...
...these pictures, which accounted for a big chunk of the library's $600,000 annual business. Hollywood could easily pull the carpet out from under Bell & Howell any time it wanted to. When Matty Fox began dickering a month ago, it looked as if the time had come. Hence United World got the library almost for nothing: $600,000, to be paid over a ten-year period. Gloated Matty Fox: "We'll pay for this cow out of its milk...
...whole world is watching us, amazed at the exhibition of a giant who cannot pull himself together even to take care of his own needs." Like the pangs of conscience during a hangover, these words of wise old Bernard Baruch in mid-1946 were perhaps overfraught with a sense of guilt. But at the time they seemed fully warranted...
...vacation to the rest of the College, but to the hard-working members of the hockey squad it was just that many more days of rigorous training and practice for two holiday contests. Local pucksters mustered manpower enough to take on the B.A.A. and B.C., but lacked strength to pull a victory out of either game...