Word: draggings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first North Americans on an Aleutian island. The faces of some were painted blue, he says, and they were "screeching" at each other at the top of their lungs. The Russians sent men ashore to parley. The Aleuts held one of them captive, and tried with unmannerly glee to drag the Russian longboat on to the rocks by its painter. Waxell called for musketry, aimed high; the Aleuts fell flat on their faces from shock. All in all, the Russians were unimpressed with the inhabitants of the Western Hemisphere, especially with their custom of plugging the nose with tough grass...
...chic." Instead of going mad. he took the more dangerous course of hunting up a new cause, which he found in the "underdog" condition of the British proletariat. "In the old pacifist days I wanted to blow up the War Office . . . Under the ... Oxford Group I wanted to drag people to church by the scruff of their necks, and now ... I felt like marching through Claridge's with a banner proclaiming the doom of the rich...
Upside-Down Reasoning. For days on end last week, "this show" got nowhere. The Communist negotiators were so obviously stalling that the U.N. suspected they had been ordered by Moscow to drag their feet while Andrei Vishinsky ran off his diversionary shenanigans in Paris (see INTERNATIONAL). Nothing so far afield was mentioned across the tables at Panmunjom, but the language was sharper and more insulting than it had ever been before. At one point, Major General Howard Turner said to Red China's Hsieh Fang...
Combat & Psychology. After the war came an era of reckless barnstorming and adventuring. Editor Jensen has unaccountably omitted the most vivid snapshot of that era, William Faulkner's Death Drag. But he has snagged some other good things: Anne Lindbergh reminisces about a weird Alaskan flight; Antoine de Saint-Exupery describes a Patagonian cyclone; and James Thurber, in his wonderful story, The Greatest Man in the World, draws a satiric profile of Pal Smurch, the cocky little urchin who flew nonstop around the world-the adulation went to his head so badly that he had to be pushed...
This attitude suggests a return to the weakness of last year. The council ought to take up the rules for undergraduate organizations as soon as possible; otherwise it will be easy for the issue to drag on beyond the end of the present council's term, in February, and die out in another inglorious fizzle...