Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Answer: If a girl has the necessary points, it'll help. But he'll still pull the wool over her eyes...
Harry Truman could view the sad results of political expediency and appeasement, which began when he ended rationing after V-J day, granted labor its demands for wage boosts, and then tried to hold prices with OPA, hoping production would pull the country out of its hole. Congress axed OPA and, despite the President's pleas, was all set to drive a stake through its heart and bury it at a cross roads (see below). Harry Truman's fum bling efforts to control the economy had failed; now the country, nerves on edge, faced the prospects...
...election last April. On him the whole moral and physical rehabilitation of the war-devastated islands depended. He would have to give the Republic credit, a face, a mind, perhaps even a heart. He was not exactly starting from scratch, but it would be a long pull...
...best up-&-coming girl with a style all her own is doe-voiced Evelyn Knight, who has a pull in Manhattan's plushiest nightclubs second only to Hildegarde. She made a hit by singing with soft assurance such old-fashioned tunes as Grandfather's Clock and a streamlined version of Buffalo Gals called Dance with a Dolly ("with a hole in her stocking"). Newest favorite at Greenwich Village's famed Cafe Society Downtown is Sarah Vaughn, a pianist turned vocalist, who swoops up & down and around the melody in East of the Sun and Body and Soul...
...guess comedy begins with sadness," Hayes says. "Well, with reality, and that's usually pretty sad. I don't want to pull the old chestnut about the fine line between comedy and tragedy but, well, I think the more serious you are, the funnier...