Word: drags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jackass Age. Cotton Ed was a conscientious objector to the 20th Century. He walked out of the 1936 Democratic Convention in high dudgeon because a Negro preacher read a prayer. He was a drag-end isolationist. He was a believer in poll taxes; he was never heard to protest a Southern lynching; and he stood prepared to filibuster to the end against an anti-lynching bill. He decorated his speeches by "pings" at a spittoon ten feet away, or if there were no spittoons, he would spit on the Senate carpet...
Bullets and airplanes are similarly impeded. When they hit air at high speed, the air bunches up in front of them like the hill of water against a ship's bow. The compression creates "shock waves"-turbulent air formations whose impact enormously increases air drag. A bullet can be driven through these waves by explosive power, but no one has yet designed an airplane engine and propeller combination powerful enough to overcome them...
...overall drag (air resistance) is so low that when the wheels are down the drag is doubled. The flying controls are so delicately balanced that no auxiliary power or "boost" is necessary for the pilot to operate them. This conserves the "feel" that flyers value so much. Test pilots call theB-29 a very "sweet" airplane...
...took me two seconds flat to struggle out of my harness and drag my typewriter-laden frame into the hedge. There were three of us there, moving through the shadows...
Roger Touhy, Gangster (20th Century-Fox) is a double-helping of nostalgia for cinemaddicts who remember some of the most exciting U.S. movies ever made, such gangster films as Underworld, Drag Net, Public Enemy, Little Caesar. Here, as in the old days, sedans careen fiercely, eyes go deadly at the business-ends of tommyguns, actors circle each other tensely, growling like enraged tom cats, and the iron, melancholic beauty of U.S. city streets and interiors is appreciated as it seldom is in gentler films. Yet taken all in all, Touhy isn't really a very good show...