Word: draggings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this was a dangerous step for Japanese leaders to take, for it compromised the throne. Since the people have been told that the Emperor is ruling them personally, it would be difficult for Hirohito not to assume responsibility for defeat. Apparently the war lords were ready to drag the Emperor down with them. Hirohito would be finished, and so would the whole Imperial institution. The Japanese war lords could scarcely have reached this decision except from desperation...
...hours drag on, she is even forced to change a diaper, flip a flapjack, and act toward the hungry, amorous hero as if she were really a nice, contented matron. There are also assorted minor plot complications, thanks to which the players cheerfully cheat, blackmail and blood-squeeze each other like so many bargain-basement Borgias who, out of deference to the holiday season, have decided to draw the line just short of poison. Warner Bros., blithely presenting them as likable people and their behavior toward each other as funny, evidently assume that enough people will feel that way about...
Next to winning, John J. McGraw liked feuding. During his 30 years as manager, his rough, tough, smart New York Giants won ten National League pennants and seldom finished out of the first-division money. Knockdown, drag-out feuds brightened most of those 30 years...
...rockets. Air is compressed into a 32-ft. steel sphere, then released through a nozzle at air speeds up to 3,000 m.p.h. into a one-foot test chamber. Here small but exact brass models are connected to instruments which measure their lift in the air stream, their drag (resistance to air flow) and their stability (tendency to yaw or tumble). High-speed photographs of their action and of the air flow are taken through thick glass ports...
...country and the courts know that it meant business, ICC ordered an interim adjustment in rates. Well aware that the rate hearings could drag on indefinitely, the ICC ruled that, effective Aug. 30, rates in the South and West will be reduced 10%, while rates in the Northeast will be increased...