Word: pulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...neighbor's daughter of 18 views such age with different eyes. Recently this girl's mother was telling her of a friend of 42 who had just had a serious operation, whereupon the girl remarked: "It doesn't particularly matter, mother, if she doesn't pull through, she's so old anyway...
...after a letdown from war. . . . We still have a few selfish men who think more of their own personal interests than they do of the public welfare. But you are not going to let them prevail. You are going to force everybody to get into harness and push and pull. . . . Now let's all go home and go to work...
...They brought fine weapons but few supplies, and they are living off the country. That probably stimulates the impression of widespread looting. Optimists say the Russians are rough because they don't intend to stay. Pessimists say the Americans will throw up the game and pull out, leaving all the Orient to the Russians...
George Bernard Shaw's advice of the week was that the U.S. should pull out of Japan, letting the threat of atomic bombing do the rest of the job. "Sitting in a country with a pistol in hand will only waste young people's lives," he said. Doubting that this advice would be heeded, he predicted cheerfully, "of course there will be another...
...Willkie as defense counsel. Willkie was eminently successful. Hays, realizing that he was on the skids, tried to save the job he had held since the office was founded in 1922. But last June his authority fell completely when Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. became the first major studio to pull out of the Hays Office...