Word: draggings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Certainly a department should defend its autonomy when endangered by administrative officiousness, and it should protect both its teachers and students from abusive restrictions from the outside. But in this case the abuses of graduate study come from within the departments themselves. It is the men who drag on as long as fifteen years in vague pursuit of a Ph.D., stalling, cluttering the files with never-consummated thesis topics, who abuse the admirable leniency of the present system. Yet not everyone can or should manage a thesis in three years and a degree in four. Factors such as the depth...
...Misfire. In Euclid, Ohio, when police flagged down two cars for drag racing and asked Louis Dommer if he knew the driver of the other car, Louis said: "Yes, sir, it's my wife...
...forces on the coastal islands after Eisenhower decided to "unleash" the Nationalists in 1953; and now the country is told that because the troops are on Quemoy and Matsu, the islands must be defended. Eisenhower and Dulles have let slip Chiang's leash just enough to allow him to drag us into a possible war--one which might spread and which we might face without allies...
Main Street in tiny Boyd, Texas (pop. 550) is two-lane, string-straight, smooth-paved-and ideal as a drag strip for the rambunctious local hot-rodders, who went roaring through town at night, leaving empty beer cans and angry citizens in their wild wake. Finally, in October 1956, Boyd decided to stop the hot-rodders by hiring cops for the first time. By last week, plainly convinced that the cure was worse than the disease, Boyd was a town full of cop haters...
...this was no sign that Mao was now calling the tune in the Communist world, or, as London's pinko New Statesman put it, that "Communism has two capitals, two spokesmen of equal weight." It suggests that Mao is a drag who on occasion has to be heeded. A nation of 600 million cannot be treated like Bulgaria...