Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...west of Bhamo, British forces chased the enemy back toward Mandalay in a retreat whose scale suggested that the Japs may have decided to pull out of northwest Burma entirely. But the enemy troops facing General Sultan's men were fighting stubborn delaying actions...
...emphasize Mr. Dewey's extreme good sportsmanship upon losing in comparison with the G.O.P. nominee of '40, who although a fine man in every respect, did not pull out of defeat with the cheerful acceptance of the inevitable as has Mr. Dewey...
Without batting an eye, Halsey made his decision: to pull out the Third Fleet, whip north and destroy the carriers. That was what he did, swiftly and without hesitation. But the enemy still had a play up his sleeve. As Halsey turned north to battle, the center task force of the Japs reversed course and headed out again from the inner waters toward San Bernardino Strait. Seemingly the change was not detected by U.S. reconnaissance. By the time Halsey's aircraft and ships had smashed the Jap carrier group off Luzon, the San Bernardino Strait force had burst...
...going in eight days. No. 6, hopefully named The Rangoon Limited, went to work last week. But in the absence of coal, the wood-burning engines are limited to short runs. The M.M. & M., which now extends southward beyond Mo-gaung, will have to depend on the jeep to pull it through eventually to Mandalay...
...Navy segregation policies carry Jim Crowism into towns and villages in which it had never existed before. "Democracy to many," concludes Sterling A. Brown, "seems to be symbolized by this message ... on a bus in South Carolina: 'If the peoples of this country's races do not pull together, Victory is lost. ... Be patriotic. Avoid friction. White passengers will be seated from front to rear; colored passengers from rear to front...