Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three of the men he was counting on to pull the Varsity squad together after last year's weak showing, are currently out of action. Frank Garley, captain-elect of the track-team, hasn't appeared at Dillon Field House yet; Bill O'Connor is under treatment for a recurrent leg injury; and Herby Pratt, considered by Jaakko as the possible dark horse of the '47 Varsity unit, still awaits the medical green light...
...Russia to imperil the U.S. position in Greece was to start a backfire in Italy. As U.S. troops, under the peace treaty terms, prepared to pull out of the country last week, the Communists struck hard...
...battled the black, doughnut-shaped monster for more than two hours. . . . Winds of 140-mile-an-hour velocity slammed us once to within 250 feet of the churning seas. The pilot and copilot worked feverishly to pull out, but it was like trying to swim up a waterfall...
...affliction on you." Neither will she sing in church. "As long as I work for the Devil, I better continue with him. You got to sing for the Devil or go to Church and not talk back. When I get myself a man who will pull up a table to me and set like folks, I'll give up singing for the Devil, but until then I won't fool around with...
...really trying to stop them. Despite the outcries, women were already showing enough enthusiasm for the New Look to pull the dress industry out of its slump and set it humming. Hems of old dresses were being let down with such speed that many a town ran out of seam tape. Said Harper's Bazaar airily: "Clear your closet and get your clothes into the hands of those who can use them [in Europe]." But the dresses most likely to be sought would probably be closer to Sophie Gimbel's ideas than to Dior...