Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vienna is still plastered with red stars and pictures of Lenin and Stalin looking like stuffed dolls; but Viennese hopefully note that fading Russian street signs are not being repainted. Relations with the Russians have changed. Vienna boasts that it has civilized the Russians, has made them wash and pull up their pants, has taught them how to walk like Europeans (some Russians from the steppes had a curious gait, left arm and left foot swinging forward at the same time). Now, whenever shots are heard from Russian barracks, Viennese whisper: "Aha, a Russian who likes the West too much...
When the men came to carry his body down the mountain, Maggie Gannon stood in the doorway of the shack and sobbed. "I looked for the dogwood to pull him through," she said. "I didn't look for it to take...
White believes that ultrasonics has a brilliant future. Some possible uses: killing bacteria; breaking up suspensions of solid particles; precipitating smoke and dust; speeding up chemical reactions. The sound waves can also pull large molecules apart, turning heavy oils into gasoline. Last week, from Britain, came a report that the little waves may soon be used in laundering, to knock dirt from soap-starved British clothes...
...Railroader & Picturemaker Robert R. Young, who will show Rank around the U.S. in his private car. They all listened to Mr. Rank with respect. As one shrewd U.S. movieman said: "Rank is one of the seven or eight key men they are counting on over there to pull them...
...should make a trip to the States next fall, but first it needs two solid months of real hard work under a single conductor." He gazed dreamily out of the window of Jerusalem's modernistic Eden Hotel and mused, "I hope I can be the guy to pull that...