Word: pulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Peacemakers (Secretary of State Stettinius, Harry Hopkins, the British) believed that civilians could and willingly would pull in their belts if they were convinced that the future of democracy in Western Europe depended on it. These officials had made up their minds, and the official U.S. policy was to send more food. But that could not be done unless the other groups consented or gave in to a direct Presidential order...
...canteen was very important. The other guys jumped out yelling 'Umbriago!' which is what you yell now, but I was yelling 'one thousand' because if your parachute does not open you are to yell 'one thousand, two thousand, three thousand' before you pull the string. The moment between your jump and land is 24 hours in any man's life. I had time to figure out six or seven things before I hit-one thing was that there is no future in this paratroop business...
Determined to be officers & gentlemen, Naval Reserve officer trainees at the University of California seemed inclined to pull their punches in regular boxing settos. So their instructors thought up a game that looked something like a Donnybrook Fair but was actually the offspring of two respectable sports: basketball and boxing...
...Rundstedt had to pull men and arms from the north to meet the Remagen threat, yet he still had to man 150 miles of the Rhine and be ready to fight a crossing anywhere. It was this harsh stretching of Rundstedt's already paper-thin manpower that led some experts in Washington to say that Remagen had shortened the war by six to eight weeks...
...shallower and slower there-and last week it was falling. If the Germans can pull themselves together, the Allied crossings are likely to be bloodily contested, especially if made in a frontal attack on the Ruhr. The Germans seemed to fear landings north and south of the Ruhr, aimed at quick envelopment of that vital industrial basin. Particularly, they seemed to fear the British Second Army, which, D.N.B. screamed, was moving up to Emmerich under smoke screens with 80,000 to 120,000 men and lavish bridging equipment...