Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Today," he said, "I took my vice consul, and my driver, and came there. I found her in the kitchen . . . Came a few men and took her hand and tried to pull her . . . Three men began to crack the car and damage it. But she still cried, 'Take me home! Take me home!' White Russian bandits, few big men, began to throw some stones. But we got her in the car and we came here...
Glimmering Opposition. Wallace picked up where Taylor left off. He also attacked Wall Street, the military leaders, U.S. policymakers. He blamed U.S. leaders for all the woes in the world. Never once did he criticize Russia. He suggested that the U.S. pull out of Berlin. "We can't lose anything by giving it up militarily in a search for peace." The trademark of Marcantonio & friends was stamped on every page of the text. Said Wallace: "We stand against the kings of privilege who own the old parties . . . [who] attempt to control our thoughts and dominate the life...
That the West would have a few months in which to pull up its political socks became probable last week when General Lucius Clay declared that the Berlin Airlift could be expanded and continued indefinitely (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). If it used the interval to apply the lessons it had learned from the Berlin crisis, the West would come to a conference with the Russians with little reason to fear a setback...
...beetle-browed mansion of a brutal hat-shop owner (Robert Newton) whose arrogant ambition to rise above his station kills his wife, drives his son to suicide, and sends his unmarried pregnant daughter (Deborah Kerr) out into a raging storm with fine Victorian flourish. Then, completely batty, father pulls the burning castle down over his ears in a huff, and leaves a mild young doctor (James Mason) to make an honest woman of Miss Kerr. The only possible excuse for bringing this seven-year-old film to the U.S. is mercenary: the box-office pull of Deborah Kerr...
...closed. In a droning Pentagon press conference last week, Secretary of the Army Kenneth Royall announced that registration for the draft would begin the third week of August, the first inductions probably in October. By November the induction rate will be stepped up to 30,000 a month, will pull in an estimated 250,000 draftees before next July. Including 18-year-old volunteers and regular enlistments, the Army hopes to be up to 790,000 men by then, the bulk of them organized into a striking force of twelve Regular Army divisions and six National Guard divisions, backed...