Word: dragged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since one can drag out the Yale log only once a year, and because Santa is a regular sport, it seems about time to draw up our list of Wishes That Oughta Be: Naturally, all of them will come true since everyone-coaches, players, even the referees--have been good fellows this season. And if they don't, it's obviously the fault of the bad boys over in the HAA who somehow made a stow with those football tickets...
While Airman Smith was still unconscious, Navy salvage crews began to search and drag for his airplane. No one remembered exactly where it hit, but one of the divers had happened to take a picture of an oil slick off South Laguna. By triangulation the point of impact was found, and after 381 dives, most of the airplane was fished up and collected in 44 barrels. "It looked," said a North American man, "like enlarged cornflakes...
Nobody has been able to explain Eddie's sudden success beyond the fact that he somehow sounds much better in French than in English. French women regard him as a sort of combination Humphrey Bogart and Bing Crosby. Some of the girls dream that he will drag them by the hair to his champagne-stocked cave, while others like to weep at his middleaged, father-daughter sentiments. Most of his audiences, as a French magazine puts it, simply like to think of him as the fellow who dots the "i" in the verb aimer...
...policy of supporting farm prices at 90% of parity was inaugurated in 1942 to encourage maximum production of food to fill the wartime demand. In the present situation, the logical aim is exactly the opposite-to encourage less, not more production. The greatest drag on the farm economy in 1955 was created by 90% of parity, which encouraged too much production after war demand ended. The result was a $7 billion glut of farm products hanging over the market. When it was encouraging the building of these burdensome surpluses, the 90% parity plan did not keep prices...
...There seem to be in nature two opposing streams-the tendency toward organization and goal-seeking, and the tendency toward chance and randomness. The upward purposeful thrust of life, which continually opposes the downward drag of matter, is evidence, I think, that in nature there is something that we may call-to name what can never be put into words-a Principle of Organization. Not only does lift man ever higher but it provides three great essentials for his religion-: brings order out of randomness, spirit out of matter, and personality out of neutral and impersonal stuff. This Principle...