Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...uniform of a Jap general and some fine sundown when we get over there we'll take a shot of you climbing up to that high point on the island of Corregidor where the flagpole stands . . . and from the top of that shell-scarred mast you'll pull down your meatball flag. Then you and the rest of your gang will stand at attention while Douglas MacArthur puts the Stars & Stripes back up there. . . . And . . . Sessue . . . that music you're hearing is our theme, the old Star-Spangled Banner . . . you remember that . . . and when it gets...
...shore rather than through the freezing Caucasian passes). Such stability would allow Hitler to turn perhaps 70 of his 215 Russian divisions into the Middle East, reinforce his western front, and return skilled workers to the factories from the army. A push toward Suez and the Indian Ocean would pull the United Nations' attention away from the Continent and, if successful, would be a disaster doubtless prolonging the war for years...
...must pull ourselves up short. We must stop groping. Let us make no mistake. This is the real thing, played for keeps. The Germans cracked in 1918. . . . They will crack again. The Japanese will not crack. Only by utter physical destruction or utter exhaustion can they be defeated. That is what we are up against. Too long have we nurtured the illusion that the Japanese is an insignificant person. . . . The Japanese is physically small, but he is sturdy. . . . He is half starved, but he is Spartan. . . . He is a clever and dangerous enemy. His will to conquer is utterly ruthless...
...Albert Sabath's Alsab: a $25,000 match race, winner-take-all; by a nose, over Warren Wright's Whirlaway; after a pulldevil, pull-baker stretch drive that ended in a photo finish; at New England's Narragansett Park. Three-year-old Alsab carried 119 lb.; four-year-old Whirlaway, 126. The distance: a mile and three-sixteenths...
...fields all his life along with the rest of the hands. On weekdays except Saturdays he wore linsey-woolsey breeches and a loose blue shirt, open at the neck, and from sunrise to sundown, except for the hour of his nap, he would plow and hoe cotton, pull fodder, thin corn. . . . On Saturdays, the year round, he would put on a white shirt with a black shoestring tie and a black frock coat and black trousers and would drive in to the Courthouse in the carriage to attend to public affairs." He "regarded office-holding in an old-fashioned manner...