Word: drags
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Naval Research Laboratory announced later that "this effect can not be produced by atmospheric drag. It remains to experiment further with various hypotheses which may be expected to supply an explanation...
...typical modern American musical flounders around happily and loudly in the realm of brassy mediocrity. A star or two nearly inevitably thrusts his or her personality into the affair in order to please the expense accounters and fill up the marquee--and, of course, to drag the smiling mess along. There are occasionally a few minutes' worth of tolerable or colorful or amusing songs and/or dance routines. There is nearly never much of a plot, nor is there much acting...
...G.O.P. State Central Committee sent California Republicans a letter bemoaning "impending Republican Party suicide," suggesting that Bill Knowland remove himself as a gubernatorial possibility. Knowland "cannot possibly muster the broad popular support which is necessary to win the governorship," the letter said, and if he insists on a knockdown, drag-out primary with Knight, "the resultant Democratic swing well might take not only the governorship but the other major constitutional posts, the U.S. Senatorship, the majority of the Congressional delegation and the Legislature...
...Flying Officer Sidney Hughes reached above his head and yanked a handle. The pull snapped down a black curtain (to protect his face from wind blast) and fired three cartridges beneath his seat. Half a second after Hughes was catapulted straight out of the plane, another cartridge fired to drag out a 22-in. chute, which pulled out a 60-in. chute. The second chute, in turn, pulled out the main, 24-ft. chute as the seat fell away...
...bank's weekly newsletter: "Our rising population is creating pressures on natural resources which tend to retard further increases in material wellbeing. We must dig deeper oil wells and exploit less productive veins of coal and go farther afield for water supplies, all of which is a drag on prosperity...