Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sooth Anniversary (see EDUCATION). He had marched in the academic procession with the world's intellectual great. Mounting the platform steps to get an LL.D. degree, he had caught his foot in the hem of his purple-trimmed academic gown. "Whups," he said. "I forgot to pull up my dress." The ceremonies over, he shook hands warmly. "It's been a great day for me. I enjoyed myself thoroughly." Then he had hurried back to Washington and delivered his veto of the labor bill...
...President improve the chances of a program which must be considered administration-inspired, even with a non-partisan Secretary of State at the helm. The proposals will only too likely involve partisan politics, an inescapable danger with 1948 elections already tugging at the parties. Only a minor miracle could pull the plan from the clutch of politicians zeus fully reaching for campaign fodder...
...vivacity. The streets are choked with double-decker buses, sleek, new blue trolleys and shining U.S. cars. One foreign diplomat lamented: "I managed to get a Packard, but nothing less than the biggest Cadillac makes anyone here turn his head." Bull rings are jammed; top Matador Manolete can pull down the official equivalent of $12,500 for an afternoon's work. The number of prostitutes has hit an alltime high...
...under cover nowadays. The young folks lives too fast an' heedless. More than half of 'em are bewitched anyhow, so they don't care what happens. It looks like the Devil's got the country by the tail, on a downhill pull...
...hotel manager turned down one party of 20 wealthy U.S. tourists because a travel agency planned to use a bus to bring them from the boat train. "Sorry," he announced, "but we simply can't have people arriving here in charabancs." There were other Europeans even quicker to pull in the welcome mat. "In Venice," says the guide book, "you may hear nationalists in barrooms chanting, 'Andate via, gli stranieri!' But then, the monolingual U.S. tourist might never suspect that those musical words mean, 'Go away, foreigners...