Word: drag
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...play in the U.S., 1930's flop. A Phoenix Too Frequent. He learned about TV from the inside as an associate director at CBS. Says he: "I sincerely feel that I'm in a position to help raise television standards." Unfortunately, TV's standards tend to drag down Scheuer's own; simply finding five or six shows to recommend each day means including some very doubtful ones. On some days prospects look so thin that TV Key simply advises: "This is the right evening to catch up with a good book or a good movie...
...their cycles in an impromptu slalom race; soon the steeliest of the girls stood beside the cans as markers. An Angels Camp policeman darted into the street to pick up the beer cans, retreated amid hoots and catcalls when a cyclist buzzed him. Other gangs organized drag races, reached 50 m.p.h. from standing starts. Some settled for simple horseplay. One doughty fellow teased his friends with a mop until they charged him with chains, beat his face bloody and banged his head against the pavement. "Get up and you're dead," said a buddy, who kicked...
...opera, and he succeeded magnificently. The work is studded with lovely arias bathed in richly hued orchestration. The musical theme that runs through the opera is the broad pomp-and-circumstantial Trojan March, first heard with ironic overtones as the Trojans, tired of Cassandra's doom-singing, drag the horse into the city; then brassily as they arrive at Carthage; and again with a touch of moody irony as they board the ships for "Roma, Roma, city eternal...
...more than a year, U.S. airline operators have been flying in a pilot's nightmare: the higher they flew, the closer they came to a crash. Though domestic-airline revenues rose to new records, the drag of faster-rising costs reduced profits to the point where net operating income dropped to $101 million in 1956, v. $123 million in 1955. Last March seven major airlines petitioned the Civil Aeronautics Board for a 6% "emergency" fare inr crease pending the outcome of a full-scale general fare investigation of their entire rate structure. Last week, in their first-quarter reports...
...Please brief me a little more on the item on page 28 of your report." U.S. attorneys get higher salaries than before (up to $20,000), but are no longer allowed to engage in the dangerous, distracting business of outside practice. The U.S. attorney who lets a case drag can expect a "needlegram" from headquarters in short order. Especially ominous under "Remarks" on a coded work sheet sent the field offices is the notation "*-3." It translates roughly as: "The Attorney General is personally watching this case and wants action." He generally gets...