Word: draggings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lyric Productions' choice of Hotel Universe as its final effort of a hopeful first season is unfortunate. Unless Philip Barrie's wisps of philosophy are staged either with a sense of humor or with a sense of dedicated oddness, they can drag tediously. Since the director and cast seem dreadfully sober as they face the first hour or so, the current production remains dead until the bright second half of its long only...
...prepared for us and shoved at us." Khrushchev said. "We firmly rejected these questions as provocative. They knew very well that we are doing everything possible to correct past errors in a number of cases, and that people who were condemned innocently have been rehabilitated. Why then, did they drag out this and other heinous questions, so as to gain favor in the eyes of the reactionaries...
...says, "when I got out of the car, and my feet absolutely couldn't move on the sidewalk. I saw a big black sign with bright gold lettering. I thought it said 'Orphan.' I never could spell very well. I know I cried. They had to drag me in by force. I tried to tell them I wasn't an orphan." Soon after that Norma Jeane began to stutter...
...world from the destruction of war, and spend most of their time contemplating moderation. Conway and his companions, however, think only about whether they should stay in paradise or go home. The answer, needless to say, is obvious, but it takes a few accidents and some two hours to drag it out into the open...
...shrewd, ambitious Agriculture and Forestry Minister Ichiro Kono arrived in Moscow to try to get the Russians to lift their latest restriction. Confidently Kono talked of a settlement in ten days. But unless he is prepared to make major political concessions, the hard-bargaining Russians are apt to drag out negotiations until the salmon are safely in their rivers and hundreds of Japanese fishermen are ruined...