Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...party more than 15 minutes. . . . We [liberals] are just a bunch of political prima donnas. . . . If everything doesn't go just our way, we bolt. . . . Let's not fool ourselves - we have more than 57 varieties." Despite their differences, the country's "liberals," LaGuardia thought, could pull together for "a proper economic adjustment in our country to permit people to live properly and decently." All 57 varieties of his listeners agreed. Frank King-don's National Citizens P.A.C. voted to dissolve*; so did Sculptor Jo Davidson's I.C.C.A.S.P...
When he learns that the executives in Benckendorff's factory are Nazis, he refuses to let it reopen. Benckendorff now gets Bruce to use pull, but Woodruff overrides him. Finally, Benckendorff has his son-in-law start a riot in the town, hoping it will bring about Woodruff's removal. But Woodruff quashes it and manages to keep the upper hand...
...large, youngish (37) man who looks something like a more alert Primo Carnera, he likes to wrestle playfully with friends and pull out their neckties. He became a rabid planner. Last winter, with the general exodus of planners from the Truman Administration, Nathan also left and organized the Robert R. Nathan Associates...
...corporation profits, who could predict what they would be in 1947? Strikes, for instance, would pull the rug out from under the best of prospects. The shaky state of the stockmarket, which Nathan brushed off as merely "bad psychology," reflected industry's deep concern...
...clear case has yet been made for American withdrawal from the I.U.S. To "pull up stakes" so early in the formative stages of the game--merely on the strength of such allegations--would be almost to admit to Professor Elliott's charge of naivete. Months ago the charge of "walking out" on the U.N. was levelled at Russia. Had the Soviet left U.N. then, no progress in international cooperation could have been expected. It would be ironie if the American delegation to the I.U.S. should take the same foolish stop...