Word: drags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...warmed the glass with his hands and slowly sipped some of the liquor, inhaling it deeply as he raised the glass to his lips. Again, he lifted the cigarette and swallowed a long drag of the thick blue smoke, letting it curl out of the corners of his mouth. He posed. It was a beautiful sight...
...finished off the drink, and taking a long drag from his cigarette, casually flipped it into the fire place. It missed. He picked it up and tried again. The butt looped neatly into the shadows of the hearth, and Vag, following his reflected image in the glass, turned on a well-worn heel and sauntered over to his desk...
Adolf Hitler, inside & out, according to U.S. Army medical research so far: he had stomach trouble, throat trouble, insomnia, imagined he had heart trouble, had a dread of getting fat, got prematurely bored with sex, acquired a stoop, a tremor in one arm and a drag in one leg, and turned yellowish from dosing himself with patent medicine...
Irrepressible House of Commons Leader Herbert Morrison, wearing an enormous pink rose in bis lapel, best expressed the jubilant, confident mood of the conference. His somber warnings of a future U.S. business slump that might drag the world into depression did not keep him from enjoying the social whirl. He danced the Scottish reel with whoops and jigs, nursed a couple of small Scotches through evenings of gay chatter. "A regular scalawag is Herbert," grinned one delegate...
...When you drag the children out of their hovels into the light of day, they all show the same familiar signs: narrow shoulders, protruding Adam's apple, spidery legs, earth-colored, leathery skin, huge eyes in huge heads. Worst of all, they have the dull, fixed stare of children who have never laughed...