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...dray horses that hauled their loads through the cobbled streets of the Somerset village where he was born to bitter poverty in 1881, big, bluff, tough Ernie Bevin had spent his life with his shoulders hard against the traces, his eyes ahead and his back braced for the long pull...
Changing Spirit. For Minister Paik, the reopening of the schools is only the first part of a long-range plan he has for Korea. A Protestant educated in China and the U.S. (an M.A. in history at Princeton, a Ph.D. at Yale), he is doing his best to pull the Korean school system out of its old ruts. So far he has been unable to convince the National Assembly that local schools should be run and financed by their own school boards. But he has succeeded in restoring the study of Chinese characters to the curriculum-a reform designed...
...Well, you won't get it," Putnam replied. Donlan went on, "You're just trying to pull a red herring across this Committee's path. Why are you up here if you don't know whether you're for this bill or not? Or are you doing this just as a front? I DON'T LIKE THESE SLURRING REMARKS...
...volume library up for sale, some rare literary footnotes came to light. In the margin of one book, scrawled in Twain's own hand, was a note on his attempted suicide in 1866: "I put the pistol to my head but wasn't man enough to pull the trigger. Many times I have been sorry I did not succeed, but I was never ashamed of having tried. Suicide is the only really sane thing the young or the old ever do in this life. 'Feeble Jerusalems' never kill themselves; they survive the attempt...
English-speaking Americans, however, were more than borrowers and corrupters. As the nation grew, the language grew too-adding pull up stakes and pony express, wistaria and widow's walk, freshman and flunk, sideburns (the cheek whiskers worn by Union Army General Ambrose Burnside) and bloomers (the billowing trousers worn by Feminist Amelia Bloomer). An erudite U.S. missionary named T. S. Savage first named the gorilla. His source: the Greek translation of the word that Hanno of Carthage used to describe the hostile and hairy creatures he met on his travels...