Word: draggings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beginning their 78th year of faithful delivery, CRIMSON newsboys, whose white and hoary beards are beginning to drag a little and impede their progress, will be given an extra day to make the rounds. Therefore the local paper will not be on the stands until Thursday...
WHRB can do little before the hearing is completed. Engineers doubt that they can sufficiently cut the station's radiation; the Network has little hope of getting a temporary reprieve from the Commission's order; and a commercial license would involve an impossible capital expense. As the months drag on, the Network will lose the advertising revenues it needs to prevent physical decay...
Sample incident: Billy the Kid, the Hero, is swaggering down the main drag when he sees a callow youth having his troubles whittling out the inside of a wooden whistly. Billy tells him to hold out the whistle and then blasts a hole in it with his .45. Says the urchin, "Gosh, Billy, when...