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Word: draggings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...country). Rumor has it that they finally located one for the job, but unfortunately she came back from her first NOW meeting demanding equal pay. So, recognizing the instability inherent in all females, even their own recruits, and unable to find any male agent willing to go in drag, the FBI abandoned the infiltration ploy...

Author: By Sarah M. Mcgillis, | Title: The Women's Boom | 2/27/1980 | See Source »

...date has been set for a trial, and when it does begin it could drag on for years. But the companies already have asked permission to sue the Government to recover any money that the court may eventually make them pay to the veterans. The companies claim that the Government mandated the manufacturing specifications for Agent Orange and then misused them. The veterans cannot sue the Government; a 1950 Supreme Court decision bars suits by servicemen who have been injured on duty because of negligence by military personnel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Where Is My Country? | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

...leverage you had. You've written off Afghanistan, whereas we believe there's still a chance of getting the troops out." French diplomats feel that a modulated approach is necessary to keep the Third World out of Moscow's camp. Says one: "If you try to drag them into a strategy of tension, you'll get half of them on your side and the other half will tip the other way, thereby eliminating Moscow's diplomatic isolation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Such a Difficult Ally | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

...second semester advances and midterms approach, approximately 6400 of us drag ourselves to classes with looks of chagrin, determination, or genuine interest--depending on the time of day. Winter reading period fades away, vacation never existed. The piquant awareness of our hometown mailman and the next door neighbor's child subsides as we decide which course to take for a fifth course and which to take pass/fail...

Author: By Sherry L. Lubbers, | Title: Cambridge Faces, Cambridge Lives | 2/20/1980 | See Source »

...ways of hard-boiled cops as he is at depicting the sweaty haunts of dangerous sex. The film's psychosexual turmoil is heightened still further by the director's linkage of these two milieus: gays cruise in cop costumes, and off-duty cops cruise in S-M drag. Both worlds are inhabited by such fine character actors as Paul Sorvino, Richard Cox and Don Scardino...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cop-Out in a Dark Demimonde | 2/18/1980 | See Source »

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