Word: drags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hour increase the companies had originally offered (the union at first demanded 29?, later was willing to take 12?). There was a snag to final agreement: the company now demanded the right to fire strikers who had taken part in the violence. Until that was settled, the strike would drag...
...solar system, says ter Haar, must once have consisted of the sun, surrounded by a vast atmosphere of gas. The system's revolution shaped this atmosphere into a flattish disc. Near the center the gas was dense enough to be somewhat viscous. Its drag gradually slowed the rotation of the sun while the outer parts of the disc revolved faster. This slowing effect, thinks ter Haar, points toward an explanation of the uneven distribution of the solar system's angular momentum...
...fiction of a "vacation" was maintained because Lewis could not legally order a strike. In Washington he stalked in & out of conferences while outsize Cyrus Ching, the Government's chief conciliator, beamed on him hopefully, tried to drag him into a meeting with the coal operators...
...fact that a deadlock has been allowed to drag on for seven dreary weeks is an eloquent commentary on the current state of Cambridge politics. Although elections are fought on a broad reform and anti-reform basis, there is a complete absence of party discipline among members of the same faction. Each man views his legislative duties in the light of his personal ambitions and thus obviates any hope for concerted action. The returns from the November election gave the backers of Managerial government and proportional representation a clear cut majority of five men on the City Council. It should...
...shiftless farmhand brother. The strait-laced minister's young wife has "vitamin" binges with Molly on the sly, finally runs off with a salesman. "He [Rev. Bigbee] won't even let me undress without turning out the lights, and I have to wear long-sleeved nightgowns that drag the floor. This morning as soon as he left I took off all my clothes and ran out into the backyard and said 'God damn it to hell!' as loud as I could...