Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doubt the highly sensitive Democratic ego, unused to power and position, would pull a fit of hysteria at even a hint that the chief of the clan was not perfect, but others of ordinary sanity are not upset when facts are mentioned...
...Dealers find it a delicate point. In such liberal victories as the Minnesota Moratorium and the first New York Milk Control cases. Chief Justice Hughes's vote was decisive in 5-4 divisions of the court. Yet New Dealers do not count upon him in the long legal pull ahead...
...hand to clear the ground and pull the stumps of controversy were such eminent gentlemen as William Green of the American Federation of Labor, Thomas Kennedy of the United Mine Workers, Mayor LaGuardia of New York City, Harold W. Story of Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co., not to mention a small army of professors, physicians, health officials and social workers. Some of the conferees were so excited by the prospect of the broad field before them that they wanted to gallop right out and start plowing before the President had determined the distance or direction of the furrows. One such...
Instantly a smash hit, the new Citroën is the most conspicuous change of the year on the streets of Paris. But, even so, it has not yet managed to pull M. Citroën out of his deep, dark red. Last week, pale and determined, the Ford of France faced his bankers. They were tired of carrying him, with extension after extension (TIME, March 12). They wanted to foreclose. With a frantic gleam in his dark eyes André Citroën shrilled "Messieurs, on the day I am deprived of control over the business I have built...
While two prison doctors tried to pull the blade from the brain, the prisoner, who had not lost consciousness, smoked a cigaret, chatted quietly. The handle broke off from the blade. The prisoner proceeded to a hospital, with a Catholic chaplain administering final rites. A surgeon with a pair of strong pliers pulled out the blade, leaving Joe Fatigate apparently none the worse for his experience...