Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...convention had been in uninterrupted session for six and a half hours. At the outer gates, galleryites were beginning to arrive for the night session. Up to the microphone stepped Chairman Sam Jackson to pull the neatest parliamentary trick of the convention. He announced that Ballot II would be taken immediately, and that, since there was no recess, the convention was still in afternoon session and no tickets for the night meeting would be honored. Even at this late date the bosses were taking no chances on getting a Wallace gallery...
Leghorn, Italy's third largest port, was outflanked. Lieut. General Mark W. Clark's Fifth Army sidestepped fantastically thick mine fields on the Tyrrhenian coast by swinging in its shock troops, including Hawaiian-Japanese (see ARMY & NAVY) from the east, forced the Germans to pull...
...Much of Me To Hurt." "The most amazing thing is the way these healthy young kids bounce back," said Dr. Gray. "Good food, fluids and rest work wonders for them. What they get is the best of attention with a salt-air luxury cruise thrown in. We pull out with nearly 600 bedridden patients. By the time we reach port about half of them are walking. Every night more and more of them appear at movies topside...
German troops in World War II have an almost perfect record of never yielding territory without a bitter fight. If circumstances now compelled them to give up this policy, the probability was that they would try to pull back in Poland and stabilize a new Eastern Front, meanwhile trying to defeat or at least to contain the Normandy invasion. Thus Germany might hope to stay in position to attack British civilian morale with robot bombs and new, secret "vengeance weapons...
...Russians would probably stop somewhere between the Vistula and the Oder, permitting Germany to hold a thin line, reinforce the West and get credit among a fairly large number of 'sensible people' in Britain and the U.S. for keeping the Russians out of Central Europe. Determination would pull Germany through as the dominant power in Central Europe, which the English-speaking Allies would have to support and arm against might of Russia...