Word: drags
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Outside, newspaper headlines proclaimed the moment décisif. Long lines of Communist demonstrators stood stolidly in the fog and rain, and in distant capitals, statesmen kept anxious watch. Inside the Palais Bourbon, Premier Pierre Mendes-France wrestled grimly with the French Assembly, trying to drag France back into the ranks of the Atlantic Alliance from which these same Deputies had all but resigned the week before...
With its entertainers stretched from one end of Cinemascope to the other, There's No Business Like Show Business bristles with fast-paced song and dance routines that drag only when the projectors grind Marilyn Monroe across the screen. She is usually followed by a drunken Donald O'Connor, intent on being a nimble bad boy who dances with statues after Marilyn tires of the whole business...
...week's end, SEC recessed the hearings until Jan. 19. If SEC approves the financing of the project, opponents may go to court to try to block it. Thus, even without any action by the hostile incoming Congress, a decision on Dixon-Yates may well drag on past Feb. 15, the deadline set by AEC for final approval. If Dixon-Yates does not have a final okay by then, both sides will have to decide whether to extend the deadline or cancel the contract...
...getting $35 a week from an outfit that produced animated advertisements to run before the feature at local movie houses. In a few months Walt thought he knew enough to start a studio of his own in the family garage. At 19 he had hit the main drag of his career...
...council has not approved a single major U.S. proposal to invest in Japan. Said one U.S. businessman, whose $200,000 offer has been hanging fire for a year: "They tell you it probably won't be approved and if you insist on applying they just drag their feet until you withdraw." Another businessman with $600,000 to invest sat in the Imperial Hotel last week sipping bourbon and complained: "I'll use up all the money I've come to invest paying whisky and hotel bills...