Word: dragging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boeing 2470 no more than 10 feet off the ground when his starboard motor quit cold. He was past the point where he could plump down on the airport; he had to go on. Quickly he feathered the prop on the dead engine, thus killed its racking rotation, ruinous drag. Co-pilot William Riley snapped up the landing gear. Ahead was the valley of the Kanawha River where the old but still snappy Boeing would have plenty of room to gain some altitude. But also ahead was a high tension line and Russell Wright knew he could not clear...
...President may well have had in mind, in opening the Red Sea to American shipping, the creation of an incident to drag us into the war," Professor Hankins charged...
...isolationists, it has been advertised that the meeting this morning is to be conducted not as a protest against any form of aid to England but rather as a fight against the imminent adoption of convoy service by the U. S. Navy, a move which would be certain to drag this country into the war. With this aim any person desiring peace for the United States must be forced to agree...
...arsenal of democracy" but who believe even more strongly in fighting for peace. For today, at least, the isolationists have cast off their personal prejudices to join in a fight directed solely against convoys and an A. E. F. They are sincere in their promise not to drag isolationism into the agenda...
...forum expert, Granik gets plenty of opportunity to exercise his skill when he takes to the air. Frequently his debaters start battling over cocktails at the Willard Hotel, from which the Forum is broadcast, work themselves into a knock-down-drag-out humor even before they reach a mike. A memorable evening was provided by Burton Wheeler when he growled that the "New Deal's triple 'A' foreign policy" would "plough under every fourth American boy." Spectators at the show are also often difficult. Before he established the rule that questions from the floor must be submitted...