Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sunday all over England they came hedgehopping and machine-gunned the people as they strolled. The attackers also resorted to booby traps-little metal boxes the size of cigaret tins with dangling wires which the curious were tempted to pull. If they did, they blew themselves...
...Actually the good German people do not shout with joy or say 'That's good news.' What they say is 'Oh, those poor British people, think of their families.' " >-"Let us avoid getting into tight corners and above all quit experimenting and trying to pull ourselves by our bootstraps with anesthetic, money-wasting measures, only to get from one hole into a bigger one. ... It will be futile 'for the U. S. to enter the war for she will be too late." ^ The U. S. must prepare to cooperate "economically and spiritually" with Germany...
Democrats of Cedar Falls, Iowa were sorely perplexed. Through a mixup, their printed instructions on how to use the newly-installed voting machines read simply: "Pull the Republican lever." Republicans in one Waterloo, Iowa precinct were equally baffled. Election judges the night before had inadvertently left a sign hanging on the Republican county ticket lever: "Do not touch...
...crowd of about 25,000 to 30,000 is expected for the game. The Princeton and Harvard Jayvees will pull up the curtain on the weekend's sports-this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock...
Three full cadet teams will arrive in Boston tonight with a workout scheduled in the stadium tomorrow. West Pointers, 1000 strong, will pull into the Huntington Avenue station Saturday morning at 9 o'clock, ride the subway out, and then make their traditional marching entrance into the Yard...