Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Jackson Day dinner, the traditional opening gun of the Presidential campaign, Franklin Roosevelt wanted this warning sounded to the dissenters in his Party. But since last autumn he has pledged himself to political appeasement, to all-round non-partisan harmony. He could not himself pull the lanyard of the opening gun. To him he called his favorite captain: Attorney General-Designate Robert Houghwout Jackson, the man Franklin Roosevelt thinks will some day be a great liberal U. S. President...
...room for honest disagreement between them and the History I staff, which has issued statements to the effect that "canned" answers were easy to detect. At any rate, there will be a lot of people going to tutoring schools this mid-years, and quite a few of them will pull through. Even so, they're playing a dangerous game of hide-and-seck where all the best hiding places are known only to the professor...
Hanging by one hand to the corner of a tarpaulin and swinging over this abyss with kicking legs was a little girl. She and two others had been playing on top of the hatch -the other two had been killed. I saw a soldier pull her to safety, and she was eventually saved...
...That the reason German air raids have not been more successful is that Britain is using a secret magnetic device so strong that it jerks all steel parts out of approaching enemy planes, causing them to crumple and crash. The strongest magnet ever made will not pull tenpenny nails out of a board at a distance of one yard...