Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dropped collar button in the dark, astronomers are searching the southern sky. They know that what they are looking for is there, somewhere: a planet as big as Earth, but some 35 times farther from the sun (well beyond reach of the naked eye). Its existence and gravitational pull are postulated by Mount Wilson Observatory's R.S. Richardson to explain why Halley's comet embarrassed astronomers by showing up three days late in 1910. Search for the new planet may take 25 years (like Pluto), or only 18 months (like Neptune)-both of which were postulated by astronomers...
...weak." "Enough," cried the Devil, losing his temper. "You fool. Heydrich! I am old and I know sin. It is punishable and some times it is an art. But you are not even subtle. You and the men like you are only nasty little boys who like to pull the wings off birds. You wouldn't understand my hell. Not even in the seventh circle, where I might send you to struggle everlastingly against drowning in the river of blood...
...took the highest court in the British Empire-Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London-to pull the battlers apart, get them to sign a truce. Last March this tribunal decided a four-year-old Canadian suit, bluntly told Coca-Cola it had no exclusive right to the word "cola," because it came from the African cola (or kola) nut, was thus public property...
...current squad managed only to pull down a victory in the two-mile, when Tom Schwiexer erossed the line well in front of Dick Byran; Ed Siemen's 880 victory, and the tie for first in the pole vault between Bill oler and Bob Clark...
This increased weight and repetition amounted to an improvement not merely in size but in bombing. If half a town's essential services-fire-fighting equipment, water supply, sewers, light, even housing -is knocked out, it may be able to pull itself together. If three-quarters, for example, is destroyed, the town may no longer be able to fight fires and repeated bombing may force the population to abandon home and work...