Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...probably would not come until Allied troops crossed the Channel. But Russia, ready to start a new drive which presumably will be geared with the invasion, joined the U.S. and Britain in one more stern warning to Germany's collaborators. Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria and Finland were told to pull out immediately, or share in the full disaster of Axis defeat...
...avert a postwar depression, ex-Businessman Bowles proposed that wartime controls be replaced by a "broad and far-reaching" program to: 1) put a floor under wages and prices-in effect, a combined OPA and WLB in reverse; 2) remove any ceiling on public works. For the long pull he joined Alvin Hansen, Beardsley Ruml et al in proposing that Government shall keep the U.S. economy in balance by lowering taxes and increasing expenditures in slumps, upping taxes and reducing expenditures in booms. He declared flatly that government must always play the "central role" in the economy...
There are many modern techniques for unearthing clues. For example, laboratories can now determine (by the "dermal nitrate test") whether a suspect has recently fired a gun: if he has, a paraffin cast of the back of his hand, when peeled off, will pull out particles of gunpowder imbedded in the skin. A new X-ray test reveals tiny particles of lead in clothing, showing that a bullet has been fired through it. Dr. Snyder reports that detectives have found the lie detector extremely useful. Though it is exceedingly dubious in the case of pathological liars, drunks, dope addicts...
Despite a slow start, the contest lived up to Coach Adolph Samborski's pregame prediction of "a good game." During the first half the teams felt each other out and kept on a fairly even scoring keel, with neither team able to pull more than five points ahead...
...used no gavel to knock down his sales, but had the auction block padded to keep his right hand from fracturing; the man who relaxed his nerves by quaffing pineapple juice and having two strong-arm men grip his arms and his heels and try to pull him apart; the man who invariably breakfasted on acidophilus milk and lunched on crackers & milk and ice cream...