Word: yanked
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...reactor and Goya's missing portrait of the Duke of Wellington. As agent 007, one of three with the double cipher indicating authority to kill, James Bond is a combination of Sam Spade, Baby Pignatari and Jungle Jim. Sporting with him in Jamaica are the faithful native, the friendly Yank from the C.I.A., and a rainbow of halfbreed tarts...
About 2200 students pressed past secret service men when Kennedy returned to his helicopter. A handshake with the President was usually accompanied by a jab or yank from one of his body guards...
...hear? You don't hear? I'm yowling - don't you hear me? Switch the lights off! Smash the bulbs! Can you hear me now? Louder! you say? Louder! Christ, are you making sport of me? Are you deaf, dumb, and blind? Must I yank my clothes off? Must I dance on my head...
...Spanish Civil War. He beat the U.S. into both world wars, serving in the French Foreign Legion early in World War I, where he became the first American ever to earn a commission, and in the R.A.F. in World War II, as the nonfighting organizer of the all-Yank "Eagle Squadron," which chalked up more than 70 Luftwaffe planes before joining the U.S. forces...
...ball-peen rendition of John Henry. He was boffo. He got a square meal and a bed. In Australia a few months later, members of the New South Wales Lawn Tennis Association looked up from an outdoor luncheon to see one of their members approaching followed by "a wandering Yank who sort of popped in and wants to sing us a song." Buddy gave them up-tempo renderings of Waltzing Matilda and Seven Old Ladies. The N.S.W.T.A. members responded with For He's a Jolly Good Fellow and a gift of a tennis racket and a pair of sneakers...