Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was only one thing to do: pull back to a defensible position, in time to organize it. They hoped that the rougher country to the south would give Rommel pause...
...feinted first on the coast, hoping to pull the British out of position. When they did not tumble, he probed for the weakest spots in the long, weak British line. At week's end, handling his tanks, artillery, planes and infantry like one four-stringed instrument, he struck with all his might...
...take it back to Cambridge, where you will be met by Yard Cops or other persons of authority who will escort you to an office "somewhere in the Yard." You don't have to march in time or anything like that: just be nice and don't try to pull anything tricky. Once you get to the office, your troubles are almost over. As you stand in line and await your educational passport, feel in your wallet. Of course you have ten dollars resting expectantly between the bill folds. There are three other pieces of green paper, worth approximately...
First there is the quick glance around, the swift inventory of "the iron bedstead, the washbasin, the W.C., the barred window." Next, invariably, the prisoner tries "to pull himself up by the iron bars of the window and look out. He fails . . . but decides to . . . master the art of pulling himself up by his hands." He dusts the wall-plaster off his suit. He "pulls a face, being determined to prove that he is full of courage and confidence." Suddenly he notices, at the spyhole of his cell door, an eye. It is an eye without a man attached...
After the 1940 election, Missouri Democrats tried to pull a fast one. They tried to steal the Governorship from duly elected Republican Forrest C. Donnell, hand it to barrel-chested Democrat Larry McDaniel (TIME, April 14, 1941). The men in the Legislature who worked hard to put the steal over, until the State Supreme Court seated Forrest Donnell, were St. Louis' 19 Democratic State Representatives. Last week, in the face of public and press condemnation, not one of them had yet dared announce that he would run for re-election in November...