Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...commander, had one. So did foremost French ace Fonck, who on one occasion had fired the canon, was easing away in a power dive to shake off some Fokkers behind him when one of the empty 37 mm. shell cases jammed his stick control, so that he could not pull out of the dive. At the risk of falling out, Fonck threw off his safety belt in order to reach the stick mounting, pry the shell case loose, finally succeeded, under fire from German planes above...
...time being to meet human needs. People . . . have forgotten the lessons of history that the ultimate failures of dictatorships cost humanity far more than any temporary failures of democracy. ... As yet there is no definite assurance that the three-horse team of the American system of government will pull together. If three well-matched horses are put to the task of plowing up a field where the going is heavy, and the team of three pull as one, the field will be plowed. If one horse lies down in the traces or plunges off in another direction, the field will...
...feeling so secure in its opulence that at Embassy parties the wives of Big Reds are dressed at least as well as and often better than the wives of the foreign diplomats; they get their gowns somehow from Paris-an impossibility for a Russian without heavy political pull at the Kremlin...
...make his coup perfect, Producer Berman imported famed Viennese Actor Anton Walbrook who had played the lead in the European version. In his first appearance on the U. S. screen, Actor Walbrook's performance suggests that he will be almost as good an investment for the long pull as the picture is for a quick turn. Most spectacular shot: Ogareff's signal to his troops to charge Irkutsk-an oil-flooded river in flames below the walls...
...Angeles last week had a perforated brain almost as bizarre as Berkeley's. Someone drove a knife into the head of one Frank Hill, Negro, and broke off the handle (see cut). The victim's skull was so thick that the surgeons could not pull out the blade without wriggling it, and wriggling would tear his brain irreparably. The surgeons therefore sawed the man's skull around the blade, lifted bone and blade together, expected uneventful recovery...