Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when he was offered a job by his brother's union. To fight open-shop contractors, the union was dynamiting structures built by non-union labor - not demolishing them, but twisting the whole framework by placing the explosives at the point of greatest stress, forcing the contractor to pull it down...
...British light cruiser Leander, operating with a New Zealand naval squadron, came on a merchant ship flying the British Merchant Marine's red ensign, but plying alone, unconvoyed, unidentified. Leander ordered her to halt. The lone ship's answer was to pull down the "red duster," hoist Italian colors, and blaze a broadside from 4.7-inch guns mounted on forecastle and poop. She was an Italian raider. Leander, with crushing superiority in speed and fire power, closed in and destroyed her "promptly." She was identified as Ramb I, 3,667-ton freighter with a cruiser stern, built...
...into small lots. The Longster syndicate which took over the track from Bradley had failed to make a go of it. Governor Sam Jones's reform administration had set up a new State racing commission to control bookmaking, enforce saliva tests, and the Longsters had decided to pull...
...looks as if Ed Guild's Freshmen the Bull-pups, but the boys have pulled outfit will have their hands full against surprises before, and there's no reason why they can't pull another...
...interesting experiment in departmental cooperation was begun last fall. Aggressive Dean Landis of the Law School believes that the College and the Law School have been pulling in opposite directions, and that the concentration of a future Law student in History, Government or Economics makes his pre-Law training too specialized. His brain child, the Seven Year Law Program, is designed to pull together the loose strings of Undergraduate and Law School life to make a complete and working whole...