Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Bridges bossed the West Coast longshoremen. The pair of them, co-chairmen of C.M.U., could pull out 200,000 men. At home it would be almost as formidable a strike as the railways. Around the world it would be worse...
...Told You So." Promptly, the President told the nation. Travelers slapped each other's backs. A lot of people said, "Sure, I told you so-they didn't dare pull...
...converted farmhouse in Bedwell Lane: "Of course, Silkin is not quite a gentleman, d'you think? Mind you, I don't know anything about politics, don't care either, but I'm bitterly pro-Tory, and I think it's a damned shame to pull down beautiful property like this...
There was another side of the picture. Cheery Margaret Toner, wife of a laborer, looked around her squalid 200-year-old cottage and said: "Wot, this hole? They could pull it down tonight for all I care...
...grand-scale Air Engineering Development Center for studying and testing the air weapons of tomorrow. They talked Buck Rogers language. Some topics: supersonic aircraft-piloted and pilotless-planes and rockets powered by nuclear energy, space ships, space bases that would float above the atmosphere, where gravity's pull is weak as a kitten's. An old-line pilot might just as well hang up his goggles and retire...