Word: draggings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...benefits of mass markets and freer trade. Said a Common Market official in Brussels: "At the start, the politicians were for European unity, and the businessmen were very skeptical. But now it is the businessmen who are enthusiastic about the Common Market, while the politicians are beginning to drag their feet. The businessmen will force their governments into a more liberal attitude...
...managed to figure out what went wrong: the loft. long fiber glass "nose fairing" that was supposed to protect the third stage and payload from air friction and buffeting in the upper atmosphere fell off prematurely, after 40 seconds instead of the programed 4½ minutes. Then the fierce drag of the atmosphere wrenched the payload-carrying third stage loose, made the second stage malfunction...
...hurricane of their emotions, assisted by a battery of wind machines, bends saplings double. She flees the convent, and to judge by all the meteorological hell that breaks loose, the earth is fleeing the solar system too. Anyway, pretty soon a couple of gypsies (Katina Paxinou and Walter Slezak) drag the heroine off to live in their filthy caravan, where she hears that her dragoon is dead. She renounces religion and gives herself to a gypsy prince (Vittorio Gassman...
...that the party paid its bills. In the angry exchange. Ford recalled Sum-merfield's generalship of the Michigan delegation at the 1952 convention, his slowness in moving from Taft to Eisenhower. his warning to Ford at the time: "If you interfere with this, I'll drag you through the streets of Detroit...
This probably means the strike will drag on at least into next week...