Word: pull
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...wooded hills from Namsos to Steinkjer at the head of Beitstad Fjord, and from there along the shore road toward Levanger, where the Germans were supposed to be waiting, advance detachments of the N. W. E. F. soon found that fighting "Jerry" in Norway was no taffy-pull...
...genealogical records of the rival Mormon branch he had found his grandfather listed with the women who had been "sealed to him in celestial marriage" in Salt Lake City. "Joseph Smith," said he, "met his death before Salt Lake City was founded. But it was a real thrill to pull grandmas out of a filing cabinet...
...Roosevelt observed that this latest Blitzkrieg should make the U. S. people think seriously about the potentialities of World War II. Thanks to his and Secretary Hull's slightly awry foresight, the President had only to reach into the files, pull out and brush up proclamations and orders already prepared to orient the U. S. to World War II's greater scope. As though by rote, Roosevelt & Hull...
Under First Sea Lord Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley, Commander in Chief of the Home Fleet is Admiral Sir Charles Morton Forbes, 60, a softspoken, blue-eyed, pint-sized gunnery specialist who reached the top without social pull, who likes to prune his own apple trees, whose second wife is a Swede. He saw the carnage at the Dardanelles as executive officer of the Queen Elizabeth, was the late Admiral Earl Jellicoe's fleet gunnery officer at Jutland in the Iron Duke, for which...
...until Depression I did highway hauling come into its own. By that time the trailer had become an adjunct to the inter-city truck. For, as a horse can pull more than it can carry, so a trailer pulled by a motor in a cab can outhaul a truck...