Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Finance Minister Etienne Clementel, backing his Chief, expounded that "it would be a crime to have recourse now to the printing press. The only way by which we can pull ourselves free from the present situation is by economy and sincerity...
...once sat in the Ivy Restaurant in London. One was a young composer who, after a long, long pull, was on the topside of his hour; the other was Thomas Burke, onetime Hardcress Kid, now famed author of Limehouse Nights. While they ate, they telegraphed to each other in a code made up of the names of street corners, taverns, dives, the memories of tattered times. In this book, Mr. Burke writes, for those whom good luck has left happily unfamiliar with that code, the record of his life from the day when he, a waif as woebegone as Poor...
...comfortably without them and his answer to his own question was implied: Not a particle of difference. "Isn't it possible that most of us overdo the newspaper habit?" And Agent Barton adduced the example of President Roosevelt, who freed his mind of "all the pull and tug of the nonessential" by having his secretaries clip and paste up the essence of each day's news...
...portion of their miserable scheme is carried out--that part of it which is beyond their control--they themselves will not live to enjoy the fruits of their victory. If the classics are to go, their advocates will at least have the satisfaction of knowing that they pull the temple with them. For, as has been previously announced, quake and eclipse are merely precursors of that more terrible calamity scheduled for February 6th, when the entire works--scientists, classicists, and everyone else--are to be eliminated in a common destruction...
...must jump, wait and then pull the rip cord. Otherwise the parachute may become entangled in the tail surfaces of the plane. This is undoubtedly what Sergeant Gilbert failed to dp. The instinctive impulse to pull the rip cord prevailed over careful training and the shrouds were cut by the sharp cables of the plane's rear...