Word: pulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That Hody Lamarr is the most beautiful woman in the world is a debatable point; she certainly is not the actress Ingrid Bergman was in the same part. Charles Boyer tried to drive Ingrid mad in "Gaslight" to gain her wealth. Similarly accented Paul Lukas tries to pull the same stunt in "Experiment Perilous," but with no apparent motive. Almost as a trick ending, it develops that a page has been substituted in this carbon copy: Lukas is mentally unsound, which doesn't really change much...
...produced by our unsuspecting cook was as disturbingly vertical. We shall not feel quite the same after that breakfast. We asked if hens are fed different food, perhaps BB shot, at this time of year? There was no evidence. Bizarre theories, having to do with the moon's pull, were frowned upon. Even Jimmy Wei, sprightly sage of the Ministry of Information, had no information. "Why try to explain in one day," he asked practically, " what has not been explained in four thousand years...
...here have an entirely new phenomenon-the circular movement of matter caused by light. It reveals that just as matter rotates light, so light rotates matter. . . . Light can exert a force on a small particle comparable to the force of gravity. It can exert a push or a pull...
...given the chewing surfaces a good stiff bristle-battering, the outsides of teeth and gums should be brushed gently straight up & down, section by section, about six strokes to a section, all around the mouth. Finally, the inner surfaces of the teeth should be cleaned with a "push and pull action, comparable to that of fiddling...
...Stinson's only passenger, a Marine corporal, had never flown a plane. With the dual controls, he managed to pull the light plane out of its dive. After he had sweated out 30 minutes of level flight, the pilot came to and landed on another island, 15 miles away...