Word: drags
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...harmful. But people insisted on acting as though it were bad like getting "lushed" (drunk), and all the squares put you down strong (turned on you). "Those dope stories-all about how you go around killing old ladies when you smoke a pot. It's a real drag. Actually, you just sit around and listen to music. I love Bach. Mozart? No comment. Mendelssohn? How square can you get? I want it modern. I want to go to Sweden where it really wails...
This week, as politicians and pundits mulled over what happened in Texas, many had doubts whether the points are that strong in Taft's favor. To seat their Texas delegation in Chicago, the Taft forces will have to drag a spectacle ^of machine control and backroom politics right down before the glare of television cameras and the eyes of 1,800 reporters. Taftmen control the Republican National Committee and probably will have a majority of the Credentials Committee (see box), but when the credentials fight gets to the convention floor, Taft will need a cast-iron grip...
...inside, most of them hard-core Communist North Koreans. With him was one of his staff, Lieut. Colonel Wilbur Raven. As they talked, the compound gate was opened to let a work detail out. Suddenly a group of prisoners darted out, seized the two U.S. officers, and started to drag them into the barbed-wire enclosure. Raven saved himself by clinging to the gatepost until U.S. guards rushed to his rescue; even then the prisoners would not let go until one had been bayoneted in the face...
Since the first mink coat appeared on the Washington scandal scene, you have scarcely missed an issue wherein you did not drag mink and mink coats in general through...
Utterly Other. Philosopher Stace is happy that most modern Christians (except Roman Catholics) tend to play down the rational proofs of God. "Attempts at proof not only fail of their own purpose and so do no good to religion, but . . . they positively degrade it. For their effect is to drag down the divine and the eternal from their own sphere into the sphere of the natural and the temporal...