Word: dragging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thomas was a thumping $135,000 as Attorney General. He will receive only $25,000 per year in his new post, where he will have a major voice in the spending of Empire billions for armament (see p 25). A good coordinator would equalize the amount of "drag" or "pull" possessed by each of the three fighting services and traditionally used to warp Government decisions in favor of that service. The British Admiralty naturally has always been strongest in these contests, the Royal Air Force has shot up recently to second place in "drag" and the Army makes a poor...
...prime asset of Rhodes is its obvious sincerity and meticulous attention to fact. Another asset is its refusal to drag in that usual cinema qua non, a false romance. Yet these qualities, which make it good history, also make it a painfully pedestrian picture. Walter Huston has to boom out such lines as: "Napoleon tried to unite Europe and failed. I am trying to unite South Africa, and I will not fail...
...selfish purposes, the consequence of which will be that all economic life in the entire world will go to ruin. . . . For that country (or countries) which is realizing my plan only for its own sake and its own egoism will despotically usurp hegemony over the entire world, and drag all humanity into servility...
Walter Hines Page, U. S. Ambassador to Britain: He enlisted in the British cause on Aug. 4. 1914. Thereafter, despite his superiors' protests, he took Britain's part in its disputes with his country, did his best to drag his country into war at Britain's side...
...poorly, kept her confined, continually abused her. "She never had any affection for me, none whatsoever," moaned the girl. ''I can't account for it. I tried in every way to gain her love, but she never liked me. ... She would drink all night and drag me out of bed at 4 in the morning to tell me if I'd die she would have all my money. . . . I'd go to her room and she'd be drunk and mistreat me, throwing up to me that I was a love child...