Word: draggings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dollar Diplomacy. And even if the unfinished pact is ratified, future amendments will be that much harder. Knowing that they will get no second chance to junk the treaty, each member nation will hammer in its own proposals and insist that they stay. Development of a European army will drag until this bickering is terminated...
...years, as air speeds have risen across the threshhold of the sound "barrier," a specialized aspect of aerodynamics, aeroelasticity, has come firmly into its own. For planes to fly faster, it was found that their life and control surfaces had to be thinner, in order to out down the drag offsets of air resistance. As these structures became thinner, it was seen that at certain speeds, they developed a noticeable flutter. When wings flutter, their airfoil shapes are distorted, and they sometimes lose all their lifting ability...
...make rude remarks about movies you do not like is an American privilege. But to suppress them ... is not such a privilege, and it is not good sense . . . Charles Chaplin's political activities, if any, can be dealt with at the proper place and time, but to drag his movie into the indictment is oppressive and ill-advised...
...bright new feather in cocky Mayor Lacson's cap. More important, the court's decision is a tonic for the thousands of Filipinos who applauded Lacson's cleanup campaign but who feared that corruption, in the courts as well as in the government, would quickly drag him down...
...cliche and embellished it with enough snappy dialogue to partially hide her lack of originality. Producers Paul Crabtree and Frank Hale did well in selecting three excellent actresses and one adequate actor for the lead roles. Crabtree finished the job with generally tight direction that seldom lets the pace drag...