Word: pulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rocky coast of Maine one night last week a group of fishermen gathered to watch a lighthouse keeper pull a switch. When he did, famed Portland Head Light, which the war had darkened for the first time since George Washington's day, once again threw its guiding light some 30 miles out over the sea. The fishermen noted it with appreciative nods; in Portland Harbor the whistles blew a hoarse chorus of applause...
...research center in Hillersleben a group of them were solemnly laying plans for a "space station" 5,100 miles up, from which a "sun gun" would have the whole earth at its mercy. Assuming that at that height a floating structure would be beyond the pull of the earth's gravity, they proposed to build a platform for launching rockets into interstellar space and for harnessing the sun's heat. By use of a huge reflector, like a burning mirror, they calculated that enough heat could be focused on a chosen area to make an ocean boil...
...tidal wave on the morning after his mad dash to get there. Reporting to the cadet adjutant, he got this greeting: "Wipe that smile off, Mr. Dumbjohn, or whatever your name is! Brace up! Suck up your guts! More! Get rid of that gabardine coat! Get those shoulders back! Pull your chin in! Further! Further! Where 're you from? The Navy? What part of the Navy? Oh, Annapolis, eh? . . ." The next few minutes of scorn were enough to wither an asbestos monkey...
...discussed what little we had read about jumping-to try to get your back to the wind before you hit-to loosen your buckles before landing in water-to cover your face if landing in trees-not to pull the ripcord until you had counted ten. The big question in all minds was: 'Will my chute open?' That is a terrible question...
...propaganda shows, Quinn says, "We have better audience reaction, we get more fan mail, our Crossley [listener rating] goes up." His explanation: listeners are already interested in the subjects. To test the program's pull, Fibber & Co. were given exclusive rights to one OWI plug, an appeal for merchant seamen. The War Shipping Administration said that "responses doubled the next...