Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Charged with plotting a rightist coup against the coalition government, they were sentenced to a hanging a la Hongroise. In this procedure, the condemned man stands on a stool before a high post topped by a hook. A thin rope is put about the victim's neck and pulled taut about the hook. Then the stool is kicked from under the victim. His neck is not broken by the drop. As a measure of mercy, the executioner sharply twists the victim's head while a couple of assistants pull his legs down...
...Pronounced Pull...
...canceled all airmail contracts because of "collusion" between the airline operators in setting rates, split up Bill Boeing's trust and "exiled" Johnson from the airline business for five years. In the crisis, there was no one but Patterson to take on the job of running United, and pull it out of its tailspin (United's stock fell from $35 a share just before the cancellation order to $14 when the Army took over the mail routes). Patterson won back all but one of the canceled contracts. He looks back on this as "the greatest...
...visitors picked up four runs in the first frame on five base hits; but the Crimson tied the score in the fourth, added two in the sixth, and six more in the seventh to pull away for an easy triumph...
Crimson sailors braved snow, sleet, and driving rain yesterday to pull out an 81 to 50 triumph over the Dartmouth Yacht Club on the Charles River racecourse. Paced by Gus Putnam and Bud Thurber, the yachtsmen took three out of four scheduled races in the match to clinch the verdict...