Word: pulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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White-haired Field Marshal and Premier Jan Christian Smuts of South Africa, a veteran of the League of Nations, ventured: "This time we will pull it off." Backstopping French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault was silver-maned, dark-skinned Joseph Paul-Boncour, who called himself "an oldtimer at this sort of thing." En route he met for the first time in years his old friend Carl Hambro, Norwegian President of the League of Nations, who was too polite to pull rank with airlines and got "bumped" from his plane seat in Atlanta...
...Italy the Nazi commander. Colonel General Heinrich von Vietinghoff, had watched the Russians closing his Austrian escape routes, but made no move to pull out. His supplies of fuel and transport were low. No one knew better than he that once he took to the roads Allied airmen could cut his columns to bits. Here he must stand and fight...
...Catholic Church is to pull its weight in bringing about the peace for which all civilized mankind is praying she must learn to do what the Archbishop says she cannot do. . . . The good Archbishop's disavowal of bigotry does not ring quite true...
...organists how to needle the clergy into planning services with good music instead of merely "decorating" them with "soul-saving hymns." Dr. Dickinson pours most of his philosophy into one anecdote: "Once I heard a preacher sermonize on Launch into the Deep. Then the choir stood up and sang Pull for the Shore. You see, it's better to plan your service...
...unwary gallerygoer whose eye lights on an abstract painting immediately suspects that someone is trying to pull his leg. He is baffled or indignant when such an expert as the New York Times's Edward Alden Jewell proclaims some of it "great art." Last week in Manhattan, three famed abstractionists were on display, to give the layman that old feeling...