He advanced me money, and, by clever wire-pulling, got me an appointment in a large college. ❋ Howard, Robert E. (2006)
It is just possible to be a literary gent and to keep your decency if you are a definitely popular writer — a writer of detective stories, for instance; but to be a highbrow, with a footing in the snootier magazines, means delivering yourself over to horrible campaigns of wire-pulling and backstairs-crawling. ❋ Unknown (2004)
A man who entertains in his mind any political doctrine, except as a means of improving the condition of his fellows, I regard as a political intriguer, a charlatan, and a conjurer — as one who thinks that, by a certain amount of wary wire-pulling, he may raise himself in the estimation of the world. ❋ Unknown (2004)
The state legislature at this time was ruled over by a small group of wire-pulling, pettifogging, corporation-controlled individuals who came up from the respective towns, counties, and cities of the state, but who bore the same relation to the communities which they represented and to their superiors and equals in and out of the legislative halls at Springfield that men do to such allies anywhere in any given field. ❋ Unknown (2004)
He lived on good terms, too, with his fellow-critics, so that wire-pulling was easy — incomparably more so than were the embarrassing visits, open to any snub, which were common if one was only a pupil of the ❋ Unknown (2003)
With eleven, twelve, perhaps fourteen or fifteen promotions thus in prospect, there must have been extensive wire-pulling by ambitious colonels. ❋ DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN (2001)
John Ellington will be wire-pulling and whip-cracking all night. ❋ May, Julian (2001)
And he also apparently had a lot to do with some of the wire-pulling in the -- the trials there at le ... ❋ Unknown (2001)
Kristol explains why he did not believe the rumors that the CIA was supporting Encounter and why "the idea of any secret editorial wire-pulling by the CIA was not only unthinkable, it was literally impossible." ❋ Draper, Theodore H. (1995)
For nearly forty years he has had a leading part in making or unmaking of Cabinets; he has served his Queen and his country in almost every capacity in office and in opposition, and yet to-day, despite his prolonged sojourn in the malaria of political wire-pulling, his heart seems to be as the heart of a little child. ❋ Cook, Richard B (1989)
Getting tickets for it was about the same kind of proposition as buying grass on the moon, and getting them with absolutely no prior notice would require all the wire-pulling Malone could manage. ❋ Laurence M. Janifer (1967)
Getting tickets for it was about the same kind of proposition as buying grass on the Moon, and getting them with absolutely no prior notice would require all the wire-pulling Malone could manage. ❋ Randall Garrett (1957)
Paul's Galatian letter supplies these items: -- wrangling; wordy disputes; passionate outbursts of anger; wire-pulling or electioneering, that is, using the world's methods to attain one's ends by those in God's service. ❋ S.D. Gordon (N/A)
It was a disconcerting sequel to some skilful wire-pulling, and the martial ardour of the wire-pullers dropped in a trice to _zero_. ❋ T. Phelan (N/A)
The dancers stop as suddenly as if they were puppets moved and stilled by the cunning of some wire-pulling hand. ❋ Various (N/A)
But she detested wire-pulling, and took an instant dislike to Eleanor Watson because some injudicious person told her that Eleanor had said she was sure to be popular and prominent at Harding. ❋ Margaret Warde (N/A)
