Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such a cinch, the British prepared to press for Bengasi, in hope of catching the other half of Graziani's ragged army. Patrols worked along the coast and also cut straight across the hump (see map). With luck, General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell and his merry men might pull off the most surprising total victory in this war of many surprises...
...classify the Spanish Loyalists as refugees so that they are ineligible for even temporary haven is a heartless response to the appeal of those first fighters against fascism who now are ringed by Franco, Hitler, and Mussolini. No All American team sparked by Senator Reynolds should be permitted to pull in the welcome must of Ellis Island. Not even the selfish arguments for walking out Europe's outcasts bold good. In a world of destruction and despair the United States since its founding has been humanity's Shangri-la. There is still no valid cause for bolting shut its golden...
...looked pleasantly open, and after drifting quite a way I thought I saw where I should land. Two farm hands had the same idea. We were all wrong as in spite of attempts on my part to avoid it I came down in a spinney of young oak trees, pulling up short about 20 ft. from the ground, hanging in my harness. I managed to get hold of a trunk, pull myself over to it, get out of the parachute harness and climb to the ground where I remained quite still until I was found...
...remnant's loudest cry: no aid to Britain. Because Eleanor Roosevelt had advocated compulsory youth work camps, delegates last week divorced her (by mutual consent). They also demanded that the U. S. ally itself with China and the Soviet Union, wired President Roosevelt: YOU CAN'T PULL A WILSON...
...published, and broadcast for public consumption, and when a few strictly Broadway guys get together and try to deprive their fellow-citizens of one of the few sources of fun left to them these days, then they deserve everything that hits them, and I hope the Government doesn't pull its punches...