Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Willkie's voice was vigorous but tired. The audience had gone ready to scream, shout, laugh, cry, cheer, boo, wave their little U. S. flags. But the Candidate wouldn't pull out the stops, hurried on to his next sentence even as applause broke out, slurred his words so that their sense was sometimes lost. Once again the speech, with its simple, strong points read better than it sounded...
...first existed. Labor is therefore the superior of capital, and deserves much higher consideration." But he also quoted Lincoln's answer to Karl Marx: "Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good in the world. . . . Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own will be safe when built...
...gentle art of letter writing. The trouble with the scheme was that the four men most vitally concerned with peace had to be sounded out first. Remains got an O.K. from Daladier, De Man scooted off to London to get Chamberlain's blessing. Abetz was to pull it off with Hitler. Either Abetz or Hitler let the Men of Good Will down...
...which eliminates them as harborers of life. Moreover the atmospheres of the big planets contain great quantities of ammonia and methane, which are poisonous to earthly organisms. These substances are rich in hydrogen, lightest of gases and hence the most likely to escape from a planet's gravitational pull. The big planets are massive enough still to retain most of their original hydrogen, hence the ammonia and methane. The young earth locked up some useful hydrogen in water vapor and fortunately lost most of the rest...
Kirkland House, which lost its star back, Roy Moore, and a good share of its line through graduation, nevertheless hopes to pull through this year by pinning its aspirations on the strength of numbers. Chuck Griffith and Jack Addington are the mainstays of the Deacon backfield...