Word: dragging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speaking solemnly of undisputed things. It was no state secret that Belgium feared invasion by Germany and not by the Allies. No bones were ever made by King Leopold about his 1936 policy of "immunity," to replace "neutrality." He ended his alliance with Britain and France only lest it drag Belgium into war when they went. He desperately hoped and worked for peace right up to last week. He retained the Allies' pledge of defense in case Germany sought to attack them again through Belgium, because he more than guessed, he knew, that Germany would do so. There were...
Chosen to drag the industry out of the woods was a big, burly, hardheaded, quail-hunting Valdosta judge named Harley Langdale. No. 1 U. S. turpentiner, he and his associates grossed better than $500,000 last year from 70,000 owned, 300,000 leased acres of Southern pine. As president and manager of A. T. F. A. he has: 1) borrowed $21,500,000 (1938-39) to tide member producers (over 90% of production) over the industry's rehabilitation; 2) encouraged the building of central stills; 3) produced a standard product, to be marketed in uniform turpentine cans bearing...
...year ago I was teaching courses about France; if I had to give them again, I would change no word of what I was saying then," Morize said. "Don't think we are trying to drag you into war; I want to know what is your reaction, your attitude, your hopes...
...Chloe wrested the hammer away from her mother. Her mother tried to set Chloe's hair on fire, then tried to set fire to her own hair, and her nightgown, which flared up, burned away and left her naked. Then she made Chloe help her drag a mattress into the hallway, and lay down on it. "She told me to hit her over the head and to keep on hitting her until she couldn't talk." Chloe obeyed, struck her mother "about 20 times before the head of the hammer came off, then about 30 more times with...
Only yesterday a Warner Brothers operative in Boston persuaded some undergraduates to steal a seal and plant it in a student's room, and tried to drag Ann Sheridan into the picture by saying, "This seal has more oomph than the Lampoon" to every reporter he could find...