Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, the odds on a Dilworth victory, prohibitive at the outset, plummeted daily. The Republicans still appeared likely to pull through on the strength of their customarily overpowering majorities in 20 downtown and river wards-the "controlled" wards. But Dick Dilworth was giving them a scare. Said one unhappy ward heeler: "It's getting so they're afraid to take a bet at City Hall...
...before we get to Dartmouth, the photog suggests we add more realism, so we go to a hamburger stand, and order three hamburgers, with thick slices of onion. The waitress does not like us. To make it seem that we are New York slickers, we chew gum when we pull into Hanover, and also to seem like polite Joes who don't like to have people breathing our enjoy breath...
...cage captain Saul V. Mariaschin '46 is now roaming the pavement of Tin Pan Alley instead of the hardwood of the Indoor Athletic Building--in the hope that turning out popular songs will turn enough dollars for the long pull through Law School...
Trouble. But all was not well. Vicky did not pull out of her glide and fly level, as she was intended to do. She wobbled and rolled, then steadied, still gliding, and popped into a cloud at 10,000 ft. That was the last seen of Vicky except for a mass of information radioed to the ground by instruments crowding her insides. Apparently her gyro-pilot went haywire, and could not hold her in level flight...
...green hair. Then everyone who sees him knows there ought to be more, tolerance." But how could a movie possibly be made on that faintly mad kind of a plot? "Well," said the underling, "maybe nobody else could make one out of it. But Dore Schary will pull...