Word: pulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...probable favorites in the regatta, defeated the Crimson Varsity a little over two months ago on the Charles, winning by just three feet on choppy waters. In the last formal race between the two Charles River colleges in April, 1943, the Crimsonmen beat their rivals by a last-minute pull that put them half a length ahead at the finish...
Speaking of mail, the money conscience executives of radio's front offices pull programs off the air if the public falls to evince enough interest as judged by volume of correspondence. So if you wish jazz over the radio to continue, take out your pen and paper and drop a line to the programs mentioned above and listen to them regularly...
...lost on the Republican ticket last week, will run in November on a party ticket of his own-the Good Government Party, with the endorsements of the Democrats and the American Labor Party. (If elected, he has vowed to serve as a Republican.) To accomplish this, Lawyer Bennet must pull a better third-act miracle than any Playwright Anderson ever carried off on the stage. For Ham Fish, no hero to the nation at large, had proved again last week that 24 years of handshaking, letter-writing and asking-about-Aunt Minnie still went big with the folks...
...followed her hips about the stage in a solemn slink, as she languidly drew shameless innuendos from her husky throat, Actress West caught some of the aplomb, humor and matchless vulgarity of her "Come up and see me some time." But pretty soon her unvaried role began to pull and so, soon after, did her unvarying way of playing...
...began in Rome one day in June 1924, when an old woman sitting in a doorway and a little boy playing in the street saw a grey Fiat sedan pull up to a curb. Five men jumped out, grabbed Socialist Deputy Giacomo Matteotti, leader of the opposition to Benito Mussolini. They wrestled him into the car. It raced away. That was the last that was seen of Matteotti until his body, stabbed 36 times, beaten, partly burned, was found a few days later in a Roman ditch...