Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year's World Series, and a winter's brooding about it didn't help. Before the 1947 season was well along, American League pitchers, who once quivered at the sight of Ted and his big bat, confidently fed him inside pitches -the kind he used to pull into right field for singles and doubles. His smashes dropped harmlessly into the gloves of fielders, shifted into a solid defense wall to the right every time Williams came...
...concentration of rotary drilling rigs in the world, began boring into its 30,000 acres in a furious race for oil. Last week West Edmond was the scene of an even more historic retreat. The companies who operate its 740 wells were getting ready to shut them down and pull out, with most of their equipment...
...ever go fishing in a quiet pool at dusk? You cast your fly and your line tangles up in the trees. There you are, with the fish swimming around, the daylight waning, and you can't get your line untangled. All of a sudden you pull the magic string and the whole thing comes loose. That's how I feel...
...sixth successive weekly rise, the Department of Labor's index of wholesale prices inched up .8% to a new postwar high of 153.5% (of the 1926 average). The Dow-Jones commodity futures index spurted 3.45 points to 152.03, highest since the index was started in 1933. Nothing would pull prices down, said General Electric's President Charles E. Wilson somewhat hopelessly, except "technological advances and more efficient mass production...
Schroeder likes to pull on a pipe; Kramer doesn't smoke. Big Jake's one vice is betting: he will bet anybody on anything. He once won $20 from friends who bet he couldn't down a jigger of beer a minute for 80 minutes. He likes people, poker, bow ties, Joe DiMaggio, and shop talk like "that day at Rye when big Frank Shields grabbed Bitsy Grant by the belt and held him out a second-story window...