Word: draggings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people are ahead of Congress, which is now impeding any clear post-war commitment," he continued. "Now is the precise time when we should make these commitments to bind us in advance of a stampede of reaction which will be certain to follow the war. If the war should drag on for any considerable length of time, and its lessons forgotten, statutory declarations now will make the wave of reaction less intense...
...Fine Points. Few of the U.S. citizens, except established residents in Mexico, understand the fine points of the spectacle. In the first scene the peones (matador's helpers) drag their capes before the newly entered bull and flee behind the barrier as he charges. Having studied the bull's style of charging, the matador plays him with a cape, with slow, graceful passes, finally "fixes" the bull -brings him up short with an abrupt pass which ends the scene...
...roads through the jungle and-in the Solomons-one armored giant even buried a dozen Japs in a pillbox that unprotected troops had been unable to approach (TIME, Dec. 20). Crawler tractors cleared banks, helped ford and bridge the Volturno River in Italy. Besides construction work, new-type tractors drag heavy artillery at more than 30 m.p.h.; others nudge landing barges off beaches and (with power winches attached) do all kinds of fabulous lifting and pulling jobs...
...characters. The true Saroyan touch appears here in the simple revelation that the five characters named Hughman (five Josephs, one Mary, one Ernest, and one August) are not related. In fact, none of them even knew any of the others until the play begins . . . (give us another drag off that before you throw it away, Bill...
...drag-end of last week's White House press conference, Associated Pressman Douglas B. Cornell asked the question for which all the 80 assembled newsmen, and Franklin Roosevelt, had been waiting. The question: "Mr. President, after our last meeting with you, it appears that someone stayed behind and received word that you no longer liked the term 'New Deal.' Would you care to express any opinion to the rest...