Word: draggings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Only in spots does the film lag, but then into dull redundancy. Quarrels between the daughter Robinson and her fiance drag out, and are finally paralleled in a ridiculous dispute between the devoted "Mother" and "Father...
...former student for holy orders, dressed in a rented Dominican monk's robe, climbed into the pulpit, grabbed the microphone and roared: "God is dead! I accuse the Catholic Church of infecting the world with a funeral spirit." Some of the congregation of 10,000 rushed forward to drag Mourre from the pulpit. Three of his friends, standing at its foot, threw firecrackers in the faces of the infuriated faithful. Gendarmes arrested Mourre and his three friends...
EVERY year, a select group of American newspapers resurrects its fight against vivisection. These newspapers drag out their cuts of the writhing dog with the tube attached to its stomach, and of the eat with its head attached to nothing at all. Most of these charges have been successfully perforated by alert scientists, but we should not sell the newspapers short. For in fighting for vivisection, the scientists are smokescreening something far more dangerous. It is the torturing of America's children...
...crop. A small fraction of them lived passably well in the former Government camps, now run by growers' associations, but an uncounted number were living as the U.S. likes to think none of its citizens lives-in corrugated tin hovels or sagging tents, with no capital left to drag a flock of youngsters to the next harvest area, and no claim to relief. For some, only federal surplus foods staved off actual starvation. With the onset of tireless, efficient mechanical picking machines and the growing influx of unemployed from the cities, their numbers were swelling again to the highest...
...this village in 1913. I was president when the Italians came and my old woman got a bad heart from fright. I was president when the Germans came to find the British officers we were hiding; and I was president last year when the goat-thieves [guerrillas] came to drag me up to Helicon . . . [He was saved when the Communists fled before an approaching army unit.] Lots of the young ones who were up there are back in the village now. Two of them-Danos and Georgios -were with me in the voting line. But we're glad they...