Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their sod huts a century from now, ancient Rumanian peasants will speak tragically of the things their fathers told them of the frightful year 1940. First there had been the war between the peoples of the West, each striving to pull Rumania into the struggle on its side. Then the Teutons and the Slavs had all but stripped Rumania down to its small ancient provinces, despoiling it of its gains from the older war. The King fled for his life and the Teuton people came to occupy what was left of the country. Then the earth itself writhed and trembled...
There was no question that the pull towards the Axis was greatest. But Boris would like to keep Bulgaria Bulgarian, and a crown on his head, as long as possible. He told Adolf Hitler that he was interested, but that he could not officially join the Axis until Russia did-or at least until Russia openly approved Bulgaria's doing so. This answer was a shrewd one. Boris could see the weaknesses in the Russian-German mariage de convenance; he could also see its urgency from the German point of view. He played urgency against weakness. Meantime, the Bulgarian...
Last week a committee of five trustees tried to pull the situation out of the fire. It reported that it had investigated all the charges, found them all untrue, with one exception: Temple, like many another university, does subsidize its athletes. But Temple's General Alumni Association last week began its own investigation...
...distributed free for exhibition in the movie theatres to be built at all training camps. Major Nathan Levinson of the Signal Corps Reserve put it more bluntly, growled: "Nobody's going to make a dime out of this, and if they think they are, they'd better pull their horns in right...
...friends have claimed that when his anger really towers, he looks eight feet tall. Catalogues have been compiled of the things that touch him off: little boys who run outboard motors; wet boots that will not pull off easily; billboard advertising; Dorothy Thompson; intruders during working hours; cooks who carbonize and mummify ducks, partridges, trout; politicians ; Americans who are more interested in Europe's affairs than the U. S.; the cheerful squirplings (a Roberts word) of English sparrows; the New Deal; Pulitzer Prize awards; interior decorating. Disapproving of a mantelpiece in a house where he was a weekend guest...