Word: drags
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pilots. One, an air-force major, had no climbing equipment. The other, a sergeant copilot, was injured and suffering from shock. There was no hope of getting everybody up to the shelter hut that stood some 500 meters above. The guides decided to leave the boys and drag the airmen up as best they could, but in the attempt the injured sergeant slipped into a Crevasse and hung there unconscious. Saving his life cost the others all the strength they had left. In answer to radio calls for help, the air force dropped more guides on the mountain, but their...
...When he wasn't twanging out patter, he pyramided cigar boxes on his chin and twirled hats through the air as "Freddy James, the World's Worst Juggler." At times he also did a ventriloquist's bit with a dummy named Jake. He had outdistanced the drag-off hooks with which managers yanked booed performers into the wings, but he was still patronizingly tagged as a "coast defender," i.e., a smalltime vaudevillian who played only Boston and such outlying provinces as Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont...
After reading your recent Letters column, I'm amazed at the number of warmongers we in the U.S. have among us and our neighbor to the North. We elected Eisenhower to help keep the peace; now these rabble-rousers are mad because he doesn't drag us into...
...look like a wad of aluminum foil. A small capsule of compressed dry nitrogen will expand the plastic to a sphere 20 in. in diameter, which will follow at first the same orbit as the hardshelled satellite. Gradually the two will separate. The sub-satellite will have more drag per unit of weight, and so will slow down more quickly. The speed with which it falls behind will tell watchers on the earth below the density of the air that it is passing through...
...thing that all forms of rheumatism have in common is that they affect connective tissue. Despite its wide occurrence in the body, connective tissue* is still something of a mystery to medical researchers. And because rheumatism is a crippler rather than a killer, and victims drag out their lives undramatically, only meager funds have been allocated for research into its causes and cures. Recently research has been stepped up on a broad front. The result has been dramatic progress in some areas, but disappointingly little in others. The scoreboard...