Word: draggings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...parts spewed like hail through the cabin. A dreadful paralysis seized the plane; after each lurch, each drop in the wind, it seemed to recover a little more slowly, to climb a little less powerfully. Lieut. Han son knew why : ice was forming on the wings, and ice could drag him down to the land, where death was. He ordered his five non-commissioned men to bail out. Obediently, one by one, they stepped into the white world outside the plane...
...Rather, this England approaches death with sensual pleasure and smacks its lips over every phase and bears every humiliation and every cynicism if only it can hope that, in dying, it may also drag its enemy into the abyss. The psychopath knows that in such cases pleasure in destruction parallels pleasure in self-destruction...
...native girls, a tingling passage through the war zone, a long-drawn debauch in London's waterfront pubs and brothels. For those whose interest in the sea is less intense than John Ford's, the endless incidents aboard ship without benefit of plot may seem to drag in spite of honest acting, deft direction, superb photography and Richard Hageman's salty musical score. Best shot: the Glencairn's crew plastered prone on the ship's deck, with only the roar of Stukas, the splash of bombs on the water, the splatter of machine-gun bullets...
Moore and Smith have hunted and fished together all their lives. Sam lived on one side of Sandy Springs' main drag, Moore on the other. This year the two sides of town decided to join under one government, and Smith and Moore were both put up for mayor. After two Lincoln-Douglas debates ("once on the depot platform and the other time down at the spring"), each got 100 votes. The election committee knew better than to hold another ballot, so Smith and Moore became co-mayors...
Here is another one of those exalting, exasperating Warner epics that drag on indefinitely being just too, too documentary about everything. Edward G. Robinson as Julius Reuter and Edna Best as his wife try in vain to sell their sickening sentimentality as old world charm. Mr. Robinson should stick to gangsters instead of dabbling in the German bourgeoisie. And Mr. Bassermann could also be a little less Continental and a little more convincing in his part...