Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...type with a boyish crew of 28 aboard (apparently for training) hugged the coast so closely that she went aground off Mandal, Norway's southernmost town. Her captain presented a huge sausage to the first Norwegian fisherman who came along, asked him to pull the U-boat free. The fisherman, after consuming the sausage and praising its quality, notified the nearest naval station and the Nazis were all interned at Horten, with a fine show of strict Norwegian neutrality...
Secret of Roy Harris' long pull to success is his uncompromising individualism. He was 25 before he ever got a lesson in musical composition. Like Abraham Lincoln, on whose birthday he was born, he got his education the hard way, all by himself. In 1918, when he was mustered out of the Army, he drove a truck for a living, delivering 3,000 lb. of butter and 300 dozen eggs a day around Los Angeles...
Before the uphill pull to Virginia City (pop.: 500) time was found for a mammoth parade headed by Errol Flynn in fancy pants and six shooters, and Mrs. John Hay ("Liz") Whitney bestriding her $20,000 silver-embossed saddle. Also in the riding was pretentious Manhattan Saloonkeeper Jack Kriendler, but his saddle cost only $5,000. Leo Carrillo rode his horse through the bar and lobby of the Riverside Hotel. Others rode everything from cayuses to Cadillacs, but kept between the packed lines of shouting, hooting, yippeeing sidewalk fans...
...democracy, and a sight more informative one than most sociologists would be apt to produce. Authors Thompson & Raymond are both able and knowledgeable newspapermen. Much of what they have to tell has been known to other such newspapermen for years, but it has been left to them to pull it together. One good reason for the delay is that, until Prosecutors Dewey and Cahill finally got the goods on Messrs. Jimmy Hines, Martin Manton et al., the anatomy of gang rule in New York City could not be fully exposed...
...checked and double-checked, and please pull for me. Will you pull? How many good ones and how many bad ones? Please, I had nothing with him. He was a cowboy in one of the seven days a week fights. No business, no hangout, no friends, nothing...