Word: draggings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...schoolteacher than a road-gang boss, said that the trouble had started out on the highway when the convicts refused to work. He said that he had intended only to punish the ringleaders. He was defiant: "I got a right to knock 'em in the head and drag 'em to the hot box if I can't put 'em in anyways else." But he insisted that he had not fired until a Negro lunged for him, grabbing at his revolver...
...casual meetings. But his older relatives seemed to find Philip more interesting than Elizabeth did. King George and Philip had long chats about the Navy. At Queen Mary's wartime home at Badminton House, the Queen Mother and her young cousin would spend hours lopping off branches to drag home for fuel...
From that point upward, says Lockheed's Designer Clarence Johnson, "the drag curve is almost vertical." No matter how much power is applied, the P-80R will fly only a little faster...
...taken off, said he, the amount may easily reach "$17 billion by 1950." Families would go heavily into debt, he predicted, for goods that are not only highly priced but of inferior quality. A depression would cause so many defaults that the whole economy would be dragged further down, in much the way the top-heavy credit structure helped drag it down...
...kind of top-grade personal secretary whq works a 168-hour week. Edmond O'Brien shows enough honest heelishness, and little enough hard-boiled mawkishness, to be one of the most likable of the tough young thriller heroes who move into Evil's den and drag it out by the short hair...