Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They should hang the man," he said, in words touched by the Italian accents of his youth. "He is a no-good son of a bitch. I should pull the rope. This is too much of a trial. They should never give him a trial. They never trialed us. They killed people like flies. Send...
With the hurly-burly and posturing of the public hearings over, legislators and brass hats got down to work together last week on a plan for the merger of the Army and Navy. After so many months of pull & haul, it was a relief even to Navymen, who still opposed the merger...
...made without advance assurances; the politico-economic situation in Greece was rapidly getting worse. Caught as usual between criticism and circumstances, the State Department last week announced that the Export-Import Bank had lent Greece $25 million. At the same time, the State Department told the Greek Government to pull up its socks; the loan would do no good if Greece did not take vigorous steps to revive industry, cut expenses and control inflation...
...such tunes as Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man, Bill, Only Make Believe, have ever really waned in popularity-and 01' Man River has become more famous than most folk songs. Back in their original places, the tunes have almost all their original pull. One new song, Nobody Else but Me, which Composer Kern wrote before his death last fall, finds itself in too fast company...
...thought it might be a good idea to incorporate all the time-tested chestnuts they could think of. They were confident that stringing all the horse-opera clichés together and playing them straight would be parody enough. Explains Fessier: "We grooved the tongue in the cheek. Why pull punches? We gave them everything...