Word: draggings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lack of originality. No longer of any use to his Soviet hosts and subsisting on vodka and memories, the aging Kimberly is visited by his KGB friend who hands him that day's issue of Pravda with an article announcing Kimberly's death. Half a dozen soldiers then drag him away to a hidden hospital where he receives a remarkable facelift that leaves him looking twenty years younger and dectdedly Russian...
...industry is grossly uncompetitive. By maintaining uneconomic pits, the Coal Board would have to raise the price on all British produced coal and thus jeopardize an already shrunken market. It would be far wiser to save what is profitable in the industry than to allow the few to drag down the many. Nor can the miners expect, as Scargill has proposed, the British government to buy the coal the market rejects. That would shift the burden of obsolescence on the British taxpayer which is unfair, to say the least...
...that was first produced in 1965. The set may depict a grungy, all-night coffee shop on Manhattan's Upper West Side, but it soon takes on the sulfurous glow of the lower depths: a rush-hour subway car, say, some time during World War III. Junkies, hookers, drag queens, derelicts, ganefs and hit men rub up against Joe (Danton Stone) and Darlene (Laurie Metcalf), a couple too amiable or dense to survive the Nighttown scene till morning. "They every one of them steal," one denizen grumbles, and steal they do: money, drugs, a cup of coffee, a shred...
...wings are on right; they are supposed to sweep forward. They are mounted at the tail end and pitched ahead at a 35° angle. The configuration increases lift, reduces drag, prevents stall outs, and allows the X-29A to turn on a dime at supersonic speeds. Just behind the cockpit are gill-like projections called canards, the French word for ducks. Indeed, the plane resembles a mallard in full flight...
Francis O'Brien, a Mondale aide who is managing the Ferraro damage-control operation, let the session drag on and on, correctly figuring that the impression of candor would be reinforced by her total submission to the process. Finally, O'Brien suggested that things wind up in five more minutes. "How about 15 minutes?" Ferraro countered. But even before that time limit, the questions petered out. After an hour and 40 minutes, longer than any press conference reporters could recall, it was over. Backstage, Ferraro hugged every aide and adviser in sight...