Word: drag
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...farmers hold their crop in the barns, while the Trust offers bribe prices to growers who do not belong. When recalcitrant growers refuse to join the Association, they are warned. After two warnings, masked night riders drag them out of bed, force them to destroy their own plant beds. If they still play ball with the Trust, their barns are burned. When the Trust strikes back, 2,000 armed growers march into Bardsville, seize the telephone and telegraph offices, lock up police and firemen, burn the brand-new million-dollar Trust warehouses...
...story of a small town girl's tribulations because of her love for a film idol, and the difficulties of three bankrupt movie magnates in getting their greatest extravaganza onto celluloid, "Give, Baby, Give" has many hilarious moments. Sometimes the lines are priceless, and when the book begins to drag, a member of the cast is certain to do the unexpected and thereby give things a new lift...
Thus his roommates have found the solution. At the appointed hour, they swoop down on him and drag him up to a sitting position. Several resounding slaps will cause his eyes to open. Suspended from the ceiling so that it hangs just in front of his nose is a large-lettered sign which reads: "GET UP, YOU STUPID...
After the World War many a disillusioned U. S. citizen-soldier swore that the Government would have to drag him off the dock at Hoboken to make him go to another European war. In Britain much the same attitude developed. Widespread was the feeling that in another Anglo-French war against Germany and her allies, Britain should furnish a fleet, money and materials while France supplied the army...
...swiftly in a wide arc he squared away for a landing, let down his landing gear. Then came some more of the sort of bad luck that has dogged new Army ships of late. As Pilot Kelsey suddenly realized that he was falling short, he opened his throttles to drag into the field. Without so much as a cough his left engine died. Plowing her wheels through a tree, the XP-38, with right engine throttled, slammed into the sand bunker of a golf course, came to a stop with her right wing torn off, her props hopelessly snaggled...