Word: draggings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Come-as-you-are parties are also rite. They are planned in advance by one small group who, at the appointed time, rest out their companions and drag them, in various states of undress, down to the drawing room, where cat sessions ensue...
...contra-MacArthur policy on China [Acheson] should insist on his own retirement, or his transfer to a useful field of endeavor ... It is unfair to the President's overburdened office that he should shoulder the embarrassment of having a Secretary who, far from being an influence, is a drag...
...flock to Milwaukee's famed A. O. Smith Corp. to goggle at a machine that is nearly two blocks long. It is the first "pushbutton" factory and, though built 30 years ago, it is still a mechanical wonder. Only 75 men operate the machine as its automatic arms drag in flat sheets of steel, shape, hammer and rivet them, pop them out as automobile frames at the rate...
...probably contains the least-force humor of the issue. David McCord's dissertation on Kieller's Marmalade and Nathaniel Frothingham's wistful complaint about Governor Dever's Great New Highway System are pleasant if you happen to be interested in marmalade or roads at the time, but both drag terribly on route...
...more fears of starving the next day; and that they can feel that the money they earn is really trustworthy. Before, the money they earned in the morning might be worthless in the afternoon. Also they didn't know when a Kuomintang officer would suddenly come along and drag them into the army, leaving their families to starve. (There is no military conscription at present.) I have gone to various villages, and although the little children often have dirty faces, they seem fat enough...