Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was anger in Israel as the Knesset met to debate Premier David Ben-Gurion's decision to pull his country's troops out of Gaza and Egypt's Gulf of Aqaba coast. But the barbed-wire barricades that police threw around the Parliament building last week proved an unnecessary precaution. The 5,000 Jerusalemites who turned out for the right-wing opposition Herut Party's mass-protest rally listened to speeches, shook their fists only when the newsreel cameras were on them, and shuffled off home without more than a jeer...
...buildings, most built around the turn of the century, ceilings are falling, stairways have started to pull away from the walls. Window casements are rotting, beams sagging. In the Broadway school, the Harvardmen noted that "classroom floors vibrate when walked upon." Some of the windows that lead to the fire escapes in the Prospect school are either screened or nailed shut; Middle Street and Pidge schools have no fire escapes at all. Six schools have no sprinkler system. Of the Cottage school the Harvardmen warned: "Any internal fire that would cause the collapse of the wooden staircases could trap children...
...favor political failure and social commentary, walk swiftly into the room, quickly close the door, stride across the room and pull down the shade, then clasp the interviewer's hand in yours and say, "Comrade!" The frankest approach and perhaps the easiest way to fail is to smirk as you shake hands and say, "Is this really necessary...
Though some officials still think the domestic industry should go on under protection, one Interior Department tungsten expert disagreed. Said he: "We're jerking out of the ground tungsten that we shouldn't have to pull out for the next 50 years. McKenna is right. Since we've got enough tungsten for an emergency, let's leave it in the ground...
...commission launched a $100,000 advertising campaign in major U.S. magazines to combat the state's hillbilly reputation, plugged the state's advantages, e.g., cheap plant sites and a big labor pool. Every paper in the state ran free commission ads urging Arkansans to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, and commission members canvassed the state to explain the new program...