Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...centers around the wharf and the offices of the three lobster companies that hold lobstering concessions from the government. All the dories on the beach are owned by the companies, which supply gear and gasoline for boats with outboard motors. Each dawn the lobstermen go out to set and pull their pots, returning at dusk to sell their lobsters to the companies for ten pesos (30?) apiece. For the fishermen and their families, life in the Juan Fernández is monotonous and lonely, and the sea is full of danger. Even so, they say, they prefer...
...Miss C. Daley wanted to be a singer, but she had "a large mouth and protruding buckteeth." At her debut "she tried to pull down her upper lip to cover her teeth," got all her trills gummed up. Bawled a friend: "Open your mouth, and the audience will love you!" Today, openmouthed Cass Daley is "a top star in movies and radio. Other comedians are trying to imitate...
...with darting, unfixed eyes. He had not changed much, just grown a little heavier; his brief smiles (which at first made his new diplomatic acquaintances feel they might somehow "get across" to this Russian) were briefer than before. He would leave his name behind in the U.S. vernacular: "to pull a gromyko"-meaning, variously, to walk out or to be a robot reiterating the reflexive...
...Wild Adventures." Abdullah's reins would likely pull him up short of that grand design. But few supposed that he would peaceably give up the Arab parts of Palestine. That might, indeed, fit British hopes for the Middle East: they need a secure corridor from the Mediterranean (probable outlet: Gaza) through friendly Hashimite kingdoms to the oil and bases of Iraq. As long as they hold Abdullah's purse strings, they will try to hold Abdullah to this more modest plan. Said a British official in Amman last week: "The Legion will be very prudent. We want...
Nine professors will pull up stakes this summer and join the ranks of the emeriti...