Word: dragged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night. One of the visitors knocked on the door and shouted for Charlie. "It looks like the Ku Kluxers are after me," he muttered to his son. He went out to see, and his son followed with a .22 rifle in his hands. When the men tried to drag Charlie into the car, he grabbed the rifle from the son and blazed away, shattering one car window. From the car someone fired back; two pistol bullets hit Charlie Hurst, another...
...Jolly General Maurice Marquant was ordered to eject them with a hundred Republican guards. After the guards marched into the chamber, reporters and Deputies waiting outside could hear cries of pain and anger and the screams of female Reds, who stretched out on the floor, forcing the guards to drag them out. One by one, the Deputies were ejected, noses bleeding, clothing torn. General Marquant mopped his brow. "What a scrap," he said, "and I'm such a kindly fellow...
...Chain Lightning" does have a moderate amount of excitement and suspense. It is nothing sensational, but it doesn't drag either. The second feature, something called "Blonde Dynamite," stars Leo Goreey and The Bowery Boys and has absolutely nothing to recommend it. Avoid it at all costs...
...U.M.W. into court later this week. The union would have to show why it should not be held in contempt of the Taft-Hartley injunction that its men were defying. With his two instructions on the record, Lewis himself had an obvious defense. In any case, that argument might drag out. Meanwhile, what about the coal? What was the country's defense against a strike that brought about economic paralysis? Harry Truman had declared that he had no right to seize the mines and did not want...
...November of 1948 a former champion Big Ten heavyweight named Butch Jordan starled teaching the arm drag and the Oklahoma, the leg dive and the crucifix to interested Harvard wrestlers. Jordan had an adequate team that year--he had some good wrestlers and some who were inexperienced but looked as if they might come along given a season under Jordan. This year, these men have shown vast improvement; throw in a couple of holdovers from last season, an outstanding sophomore and, no doubt about it, Jordan has the makings of a very strong wrestling team...