Word: pulling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...business" side, where the executive sits, there are (among other wonders): a radio, fluorescent lights, a Teletalk intercommunication unit (known commonly as a "squawk-box"), an electronic dictating machine, an electric razor with door mirror, an electric cigaret light' er, a telephone mounted on a pull-out slide with an automatic index, an extra electrical outlet convenient for fan, heater, Silex or therapeutic lamp...
Back-seat scorers are not anticipating victory in the breast stroke for the visiting team, but the Crimson swimmers are expected to pull both relays out of the fire. Ballard, who amassed a ten-point total as high scorer in the Pointers meet, will join with Jerry Gorman and Ted and Norris to offer the Lions potentially powerful opposition in the long distance races...
While the winter lasts, every weekend is festival time on Montreal's Mount Royal. Up the snow-cloaked mountain, rising from the heart of the city, youngsters pull sleds and toboggans (which early Canadians copied from the Micmac Indians). Skiers plod up through the powdery snow. A few, bundled under buffalo robes, ride up grandly in bright red carrioles behind teams of steaming horses...
...reason or another, an awful lot of men pull out at this time of year," Watson observed. "Every day we hear of two or three new vacancies that have come up." So many have left that at present the housing department is completely up to date in its program of moving non-Freshmen from the Yard to the Houses...
...tugboater can pull apart the monopoly, the Morans can. The 86-year-old firm was founded in New York by Mike Moran, Ed's grandpa, as big and rugged as Ed is small and quiet. But it was Mike's son, Eugene F. Moran, 75, chairman of the board and Ed's uncle, who chugged the company into big business. An elegant dresser who shocked tugboaters by carrying a cane, he boasted that his tugs could tow anything anywhere. Said he: "Those big ones of ours could pull the Statue of Liberty down to the South Pole...