Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Those horses must pull together. We cannot hope to save this democracy of ours any other way. If you will charge me with that responsibility I will see to it that the pull is strong and is smooth." Next night, at Madison, Wis., his hearers were mostly students: an intelligent, restless, heckling, cheering audience. Willkie, apparently loving it, thrust-&-parried the hecklers, gradually rose to an oratorical form that astounded the correspondents, who were only now discovering that Willkie doesn't like to talk, he likes to argue. A hostile audience is meat-&-drink to him. It was Willkie...
Through Philadelphia streets flew Edward with a police escort, sirens screaming. He told them to pull up at the store of Nick Smar, who took the watch, turned it over, almost dropped it in his excitement. Tremblingly Mr. Smar fixed the crystal, indignantly turned down the $10, wrote "With the compliments of Nick Smar" on the back of his business card. Back to the railroad car flew Edward, with watch, $10, and card. Mr. Early forgot...
...local boards will assign a serial number to each registrant (thousands will have the same number). Then follows lottery day, when a suitable dignitary (Franklin Roosevelt, for instance) will reach into the same glass bowl from which the first World War I number (258) was drawn in 1917, will pull out one of thousands of jumbled capsules. Each capsule will contain a numbered slip. Registrants holding the drawn numbers will be the first to receive detailed questionnaires, probing into every aspect of jobs, dependents, special qualifications, reasons (if any) for requesting exemption. Other lotteries will follow...
...been used to set fire to military stores standing in open dumps, in arsenals, in railway cars on sidings, in trucks, or in woods. Sincerely regretful of the costly blight which had come upon Propaganda Minister Goebbels' roses, and refraining from indiscriminate bombing of Berlin despite urgent popular pull for it, the R. A. F. further pointed out that it had bombed scores of authentic military objectives, such as potential jumping-off spots for an invasion, railroad centres like Hamm, Ehrang (near Trier), Osnabrück, Brussels, air bases at Norderney and Den Helder, industrial plants like Bremen...
...slaughter. Those with steam up, hastily got under way. Taken from the upper works of a tall ship (probably the Dunkerque) the picture (lower right) shows the 26,500-ton battle cruiser Strasbourg, whose stern is visible beyond the bridge of the Provence (in the foreground), starting to pull out. Beyond her, the sister ship of the Provence, the 22,189-ton battleship Bretagne has already been hit by a salvo. A few moments later (upper left) the Strasbourg has got away, and over the stern of the burning Bretagne is visible the airplane tender Commandant Teste. One shell...