Word: drags
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good case can be made for the other side," he added. "But Warren cannot participate before confirmation without numerous pressures and the Constitution was designed to protect against such pressures. For instance, even if the Senate convenes before a decision is made on the segregation case, some senators might drag on hearings until they see how Warren did do, the public would believe that political pressures influenced his decisions. This is especially unfortunate since the Court needs its prestige with these important cases," he concluded...
...Korea, he stressed two points: 1) the Communists can no longer count on their "privileged sanctuary" beyond the Yalu, if they attack Korea again; 2) knowing that the Communists like to use negotiation as "a cover for achieving ulterior purposes," the U.S. will not let the Korean peace talks drag on indefinitely...
...Yankee in a convertible can enter the town of Egypt, Miss, lighting a cigarette, leave it exhaling his first drag, and never know that he has been anywhere at all. But Egypt is somewhere, all right; it contains a couple of general stores and filling stations and 100 citizens as civic-minded and world-aware as just about any in the U.S. It also contains the outstanding rural church in the South...
Moving Tails. Besides rails, a railroad needs block signals to warn of obstructions ahead. At 20-ft. intervals along Zworykin's cable are small transmitters that broadcast signals when a mass of metal (i.e., an automobile) has passed over them. This makes each moving car drag after it a moving "tail" of signals. When the car behind it gets too close, the block signals (acting on engine and brakes) slow it down in time to avoid a smash. The transmitters allow for the speed of both the leading and the following car. If the car ahead stops completely...
...most favorable spot: the hot desert that surrounds the Salton Sea in Southern California. A Sabre jet is built to fly at mach .91, i.e., 91% of the speed of sound. Above this speed, it runs into a sharp increase of air resistance that is called "compressibility drag rise." Since sound moves faster at high temperature, the best place to try for speed is a hot desert...