Word: pulled
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Those horses must pull together. We cannot hope to save this democracy of ours any other way. If you will charge me with that responsibility I will see to it that the pull is strong and is smooth." Next night, at Madison, Wis., his hearers were mostly students: an intelligent, restless, heckling, cheering audience. Willkie, apparently loving it, thrust-&-parried the hecklers, gradually rose to an oratorical form that astounded the correspondents, who were only now discovering that Willkie doesn't like to talk, he likes to argue. A hostile audience is meat-&-drink to him. It was Willkie...
...which eliminates them as harborers of life. Moreover the atmospheres of the big planets contain great quantities of ammonia and methane, which are poisonous to earthly organisms. These substances are rich in hydrogen, lightest of gases and hence the most likely to escape from a planet's gravitational pull. The big planets are massive enough still to retain most of their original hydrogen, hence the ammonia and methane. The young earth locked up some useful hydrogen in water vapor and fortunately lost most of the rest...
Kirkland House, which lost its star back, Roy Moore, and a good share of its line through graduation, nevertheless hopes to pull through this year by pinning its aspirations on the strength of numbers. Chuck Griffith and Jack Addington are the mainstays of the Deacon backfield...
Through Philadelphia streets flew Edward with a police escort, sirens screaming. He told them to pull up at the store of Nick Smar, who took the watch, turned it over, almost dropped it in his excitement. Tremblingly Mr. Smar fixed the crystal, indignantly turned down the $10, wrote "With the compliments of Nick Smar" on the back of his business card. Back to the railroad car flew Edward, with watch, $10, and card. Mr. Early forgot...
...been used to set fire to military stores standing in open dumps, in arsenals, in railway cars on sidings, in trucks, or in woods. Sincerely regretful of the costly blight which had come upon Propaganda Minister Goebbels' roses, and refraining from indiscriminate bombing of Berlin despite urgent popular pull for it, the R. A. F. further pointed out that it had bombed scores of authentic military objectives, such as potential jumping-off spots for an invasion, railroad centres like Hamm, Ehrang (near Trier), Osnabrück, Brussels, air bases at Norderney and Den Helder, industrial plants like Bremen...