Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...angle, or position, block is designed to get the most thorough block from the least power by hitting the would-be tackler from some sort of an angle, and with any one of a dozen different types of blocks. None of this push-and-pull strength test stuff. The Harlow system is scientific...
...radio becomes guilty of making its commentators take sides-or pull their punches-in order to curry favor with advertisers, it will have much to account for. But it will also have much to account for if it abandons all editorial views in order to put on a false front of impartiality...
...story requires Mr. Cantor to portray himself as a Pandora's box of stale jokes, an egomaniac with whom Messrs. Horton & Sakall traffic only because he owns Dinah Shore, who is essential to a Monster Benefit they want to stage. Their problem: to pull for the Shore without shipping too much Cantor. They fail, and Mr. Cantor, taking charge, develops such old-fashioned ideas for the show as that of dressing the chorus-girls as boiled potatoes and having them dive into a tank of sour cream...
...workers. . . . The least hopeful aspect of our future is that amateurs are likely to be tinkering with our economic machinery. . . . It should be kept in mind that generous, even fabulous, rewards for those at the top are as a magnet that all along has been exerting an upward pull. . . . After all, what you find in a pay envelope is profit and most of the people I have known in my life have been constantly trying to get a fatter pay envelope...
When CABmen got to Lisbon, Rod Sullivan tried to help them solve the mystery of the crash. But he could not understand what had happened. The plane, he said, had suddenly gone into a steep dive. He had pulled the throttles, turned to make an emergency landing. He agreed that a better remedy would have been to increase power to pull the plane out of its unusual attitude. He could not say why he had not done...