Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...knife and cut off her stays, slapped her face and pushed her into an empty loft, threatening to cut her throat if she cried out. She was kept in the loft for four weeks, living on water and crusts of bread, till at last she mustered courage to pull the boards from a nailed-up window and climb...
...Jungle Story. Unpredictable as ever, the defenders chose to abandon their excellent beach defenses and pull back to the hills. Troops quickly worked up toward the dense undergrowth where the first Japanese opposition began. Then the battle steadied down to the usual drudging Southwest Pacific jungle fight, with the Aussies working diligently to erase each individual Jap. At some points the advance was slowed by electrically-controlled Jap minefields. But by this week the Aussies had reached the town of Tarakan and captured the island airfield two miles away...
...Edge and the railroad lobby are behind it!" shouted the mayor. "But don't be frightened . . . just pull the first five levers. Then they'll drag those damned machines out of here...
Cherrington remarked that despite its conservative and isolationist aspects in normal times, provincialism in this country has "proved to be an amazingly flexible thing. Coupled with American vitality it can pull us through. Although we cannot destroy provincialism, we can bring it up to date...
...only remained to be seen how many of their divisions in Italy they could pull back to the mountain bastion under the scourge of Allied air power...