Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crashed B-25 at a China base came the agonized screams of a dying, 20-year-old sergeant-gunner. Sickened airmen stood around the plane and listened, sobbing in helpless horror. They had tried rescue. As many as six had rushed in, had hauled and tugged, even tried to pull the sergeant loose from his legs, crushed and trapped behind the copilot's seat. They had failed, driven back by the consuming fire...
Later he hopes to add more such equipment, pull Alaska's far-flung routes into a tight, efficient network, thus dominate the north completely. If & when that time comes, he has a still greater dream: break out of Alaska on routes already applied for and fly to Seattle, Minneapolis and Chicago, maybe even Russia and the Orient...
...hall," the stage is set for an out-of-the-corner-of-the-mouth-remark from Bogart. And she doesn't need the content of those lines to make the audience groan; her first speech consists of "Anybody got a cigarette?", and half the audience expects Humphrey to pull out a carton of Camels...
...George S. Rasmussen, National Tea ran into difficulties not many years after he left the company to his sons, George S. Jr. and Robert V., and went home to Denmark. By 1937, National Tea was in the red by $1,365,280. McKinlay was brought in to try to pull it out, though Robert stayed on as president...
From that time on, although he occasionally tried to pull out, he was hip-deep in Chinese affairs. He became editor of the Far Eastern Review, with an eye to breaking down "the cake of custom" blocking the modernization of China. He had a seat at the negotiations over Japan's notorious Twenty-One Demands upon China in 1915, and helped soften the blow which would have made China a vassal. The Japs never forgave...