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...down to the park with him and play for an hour every night," she remembers. "If I told him I didn't want to play, he'd call me a 'wuss' or a 'wimp' and drag me out anyway...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: St. Louis: Modesty Tempers Success | 11/15/1978 | See Source »

...seems out of place in an adaptation of Alice's adventures. Nearly every song except those such as the "Lobster Quadrille," which Carroll put in the book himself, is so burdened with "heavy" concepts and sappy metaphors (i.e. "Meetings are like strawberries, small and good to eat...") that they drag the show down like an anchor...

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: Failure in Matherland | 11/10/1978 | See Source »

...discussion on the Engelhard issue before adjournment so that a resolution acceptable to most representatives could be worked out before the Assembly recessed. The person who had moved to recess was not aware of my concern for concensus and thought that the three hour-long meeting would drag on even longer since no specific resolution had been prepared...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Assembly and Engelhard | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

When the phone rings in the screening room, Dick Belisle grabs the receiver, takes a long, practiced drag on his cigarette before placing it carefully on the edge of his ashtray, pulls up his notepad and begins asking questions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Massachusetts: A Hot Line to Tragedy | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

...Connolly insists that "Moses created most of central Long Island in his own image...and he also created a fortune for himself." Having managed somehow to drag the name of Moses into an article on the Carey-Duryea gubernatorial campaign, he might have troubled to get the facts straight. Ross Green...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Financial Rhetoric | 10/25/1978 | See Source »

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