Word: pulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know, after you have looked down a gun barrel for several years, you become impervious to the threat. You finally get to thinking that perhaps the easiest solution is to let the other fellow pull the trigger...
...those taking the trouble to complete the form, only slightly better than seven per cent conformed to the stereotype of Harvard indifference by professing to think that the method of selecting a Council made no difference at all. The response to the poll may indeed, have started to pull apart the timeworn thesis that the undergraduate is "a most indifferent...
Ahead 1 to 0 at the half, the Varsity soccer team faltered in the second half and allowed a fighting eleven from the University of Connecticut to pull out a 2 to 1 victory last Saturday at the Business School Field. The Crimson dominated the play for most of the game, but an orthodox eleven-man defense effectively squashed must of the Varsity's scoring chances...
...warmed island in Wusih's Lake Tai Hu, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek celebrated his 60th birthday with his wife and friends. He said it was the happiest day he had spent in ten years, unmarred even by the clatter and stink of the small steamboat originally chartered to pull the picnic barge to the island...
Replied Marcus Goodrich: "If that son of a gun comes up here, I'll pull an old Latin custom on him-bolt the windows and lock in the women. That's what he did to me in Mexico...