Word: draggings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy wife wrote: "My husband . . . wants a child. I do not. ... I don't want to drag around alone during those miserable nine months. . . . Am I just a selfish female?" Mary called the writer "harebrained," said: "My immediate reaction . . . is a blend of nausea and dismay...
...from calling everyone Dick. Talkative, Ozarkian, lanky, he harangued his platoon half hours at a time, often to heights of innocent eloquence, as in his farewell speech: "I ain't a sacred man, but we gonna win, 'cause we got folks ta home what's got a mighty big drag wid de Man 'at runs 'a whole shebang...
...dialogue and action drag in most places except for one funny scene in which Grant learus how to knit. Otherwise...
...overdescribe it," sighed Archie Campbell. "After the peace the War Department will have to send troops there to drag those guys home . . . it's a soldier's dream." Less explicit, less expansive than Campbell, the Pacific Islands Pilot, Vol. III, Sixth Edition, nevertheless concedes that Aitutaki's people are "hospitable and well-disposed...
...play, and in his expressive mouth the inane words of a popular song often came in for very searching satirical treatment. In 1929, in collaboration with Guitarist Eddie Condon and a small but vital ensemble, he made one of the greatest jazz records of all time: The Minor Drag and Harlem Fuss...