Word: yank
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...large magnetic field--95 inches--to hold the particles in circular paths. The magnet in Harvard's cycltron has power enough to yank hammers out of people's hands...
...already headlined a story by U.P.'s White House Correspondent Merriman Smith that President Truman had decided against any rebuke to MacArthur (headlined the New York Daily Mirror: WHITE HOUSE WON'T CENSURE MACARTHUR). A.P. had put out a similar story. The Portland Oregon Journal had to yank its editorial that "Truman couldn't fire MacArthur even if he wanted to . . ." Apparently, only NBC's Earl Godwin emerged as a prophet with honor. He had broadcast: "President Truman is not going to let MacArthur get away with it." On the eve of the announcement, Godwin proclaimed...
...Faces. Not all editors had time to yank their wrong guesses. The New Orleans Times Picayune put out its early edition while still observing on the editorial page that "there is no indication that the President is considering the removal of MacArthur." The Hartford Courant kept its editorial which said that "Mr. Truman is afraid of MacArthur," while its banner headlines said the opposite. But it was a measure of the decline of the editorial writer's art that many editors found their editorials foggy or innocuous enough to fit the facts both before & after MacArthur was fired...
...exhibitors cured the box-office anemia of 20th Century-Fox's A Ticket to Tomahawk by changing the title to The Sheriff's Daughter. Last week, despite good reviews, the same studio's U.S.S. Teakettle proved surprisingly anemic in its first bookings. The company decided to yank the movie out of release, give it the same kind of tonic. New title: You're In the Navy...
People's new publisher under Hillman is Franklin Forsberg, onetime boss of Yank and Liberty. He set his sights on the expanding G.I. market, and a circulation of 1,000,000, offered "a few more bosoms" if that was what his readers wanted...