Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...constituted authority, all you have left is anarchy. Student expression has been allowed to run wild here over a period of years. We're not against student expression, but it must run through channels." And faculty critics were worse: "You can't feed at the trough and pull the bung out at the same time . . ." In his convocation address, Ashby promised to use DDT on erring faculty and students...
...reason is partly structural. In none of his plays has Tennessee Williams made a classic frontal assault on drama. Writing episodically, with tricks of stagecraft and a crutchlike use of offstage music, he has always trusted to a vague sense of poetry and a vivid sense of theater to pull him through. Here the sense of theater is weakened by wordiness and the episodic method is inadequate. The episodes themselves are often skimpy and short-breathed; the minor characters are mostly not even wooden-just beaverboard. The many scenes, instead of serving as a flight of stairs to the great...
...these national issues he will be directly opposed by Fitzgerald, who has been endorsed by the C.I.O. and the A.F.L. Fitzgerald, a former President of the Boston City Council and former acting mayor of Boston, is trying to pull Boston back into the Democratic column. He is campaigning for large federal education bill providing free lunches, medical aid, and transportation for sectarian schools; Saltonstall opposed this provision. In their foreign policy the two men are fairly close. Both support full appropriations for the Marshall Plan, and both favor putting teeth in the United Nations. Fitzgerald makes two specific proposals...
Details are not yet available on this project. Somebody still has to figure how to pull students out of DP camps, how to get them across the ocean, how to support them in this country. But the State Department has told an NSA official that it likes the idea, and if NSA can now interest colleges in a feasible project, the DP plan may somehow, someday succeed...
...been summoned by an indignant neighbor who had finally decided to inform the authorities of the goings-on at Frau Lehrte's). The Russian jerked himself erect. Forgetting his motorcycle, he walked off in the direction of the Soviet zone. But when he saw a second U.S. jeep pull up, he ducked behind a tree, raised his rifle and fired four quick shots. German and U.S. police flung themselves behind the parked cars; the Russian slipped away. A German policeman, wounded in the leg, lay on his back before Frau Lehrte's house. Germans clustered around...