Word: dragged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lost, Brown complained of a "cynical deal engineered by a reactionary darling hell-bent for the White House." But Pat Brown, described by a friend as "a great big Teddy bear who doesn't want to grow claws," has never shown any liking for a knockdown drag-out fight. And that was the only kind of fight anyone could expect from Republican Bill Knowland, with his immense California prestige, his boiler-room energy and his powerful friends...
Whipple added that the second rocket, although in a more elliptic orbit than the first, would probably take "a comparable period of time" to be affected by the atmosphere drag which is slowly destroying Sputnik I's rocket. Meanwhile, he said, "Curly," the first dog in space, is comparatively safe...
...octane stake of $400), onetime Pressagent Petersen has also striven earnestly to eliminate hell-for-leather jalopy jockeys as a highway hazard, helped start up the National Hot Rod Association (headed by Hot Rod's Editor WalIy Parks) to herd drivers into some 700 "drag strips" that are now specifically set aside around the country for 130-m.p.h. hot-rod competitions (TIME, Aug. 2 9) 1955). Last week Publisher Petersen sat down with his editors to plan an even more ambitious safety project. In the belief that highway deaths could be significantly reduced by a unified, nationwide research organization...
...offbeat sort decked in a baseball uniform and chomping an outsize cigar, this Good Fairy grants Benjy's only wish that "whatever big and marvelous things happen to little Benjy . . . will happen to his dear Mummy, too!" Months pass, and nothing happens until one day Mummy and Benjy drag sulky old Daddy out on a picnic. Benjy spots a giant black egg. and Daddy tells him not to fool around with it, but Mummy mutters in her through-closed-teeth voice: "Don't try to make a craven...
...Fred L. Whipple, director of the Observatory, said "We can't say these forces don't exist, but at the moment we are trying to explain the rocket's behavior by air drag and other known forces...