Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ride on top of the pilot's compartment, belly down, head into the wind with their little fingers spread out over the windshield so that they won't be blown off. Of course, as we are operating a transport line, they behave themselves and don't pull any of the funny stuff their European cousins use to annoy pilots...
...hundreds of bays and inlets along the upper Atlantic Coast this week there was a splash of activity: the oyster season had opened.* Oystermen clambered into their tug-like boats, chug-chugged to the beds, used big dredges to pull bivalves from the bottom, came home gunwales deep with shellfish. To landlubbers everything looked the same. But veteran oystermen knew better...
...method of operation [of the arm]," wrote the doctors, "is somewhat similar to that of a two-horse carriage, where the pull is . . . apportioned and equalized between the two ends of a lever, the whiffletree." Motor power is reduced to about 25% of normal, but this is still enough to enable patients to carry pails of water or pour water from one full pail into an empty one. The articulation is so perfect that the patient can hold and smoke a cigaret with ease...
...magician trying to pull a hat out of a rabbit, a seaman shaving in a hurricane, slapsticky Lou Costello is a successful clown. But most of it is South Sea stuffing, Hollywood style, with only two notable exceptions: a breakaway tune called Vingo Jingo (authors: Don Raye and Gene DePaul), and radio's vibrant-voiced Nan Wynn, now visible for the first time after her anonymous role as Rita Hayworth's singing voice in My Gal Sal (TIME...
...three of the six finalists were Crimson runners, but one of the best dash men on the squad, Frank Coolidge, could only pull in a third behind Sid Stayman of Worcester Tech, and Sandy Patterson. Following Coolidge were Wes Flint and Moe Young. Even the winner's time in this event was slow, 10.2 seconds, due probably to the soft track...