Word: drags
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Across the Gulf. "What is the world scene as presented to us today? Mighty forces armed with fearful weapons are baying at one another across a gulf which neither wishes and both fear to cross, but into which they may tumble and drag each other to their common ruin. On the one side stand all the armies of Soviet Russia and their Communist satellites, agents and devotees. On the other are the Western democracies, with their far superior resources, at present only partly organized, gathering together around the U.S. Now there is no doubt on which side we stand...
...Think," Konomi urged the ministry, "how unfortunate are the citizens of Tokyo. Far away from the mountains and the "open sea, they are unblessed by fresh breezes and deprived of the benefits of green leaves. They drag their lives from day to day through the dust and dirt of the city. The Tokyo Hot Springs," said Ujitoshi Konomi, putting a name to his project, "will change all this...
...airstream. For many years, Sikorsky thinks, conventional helicopters will hold the ground that they have recently won. Eventually, perhaps, a convertiplane will be perfected that can retract its rotors completely while flying as an airplane. Such a craft, free of the rotor's drag, might have very great speed and range. Presumably Sikorsky is working on this design...
What are the Communist armies up to while the truce talks drag on? At a formal press conference, a Pentagon colonel last week told the U.S.: that the enemy has utilized the time since the Malik peace proposal to build up his strength tremendously. Items...
...started moving out. The lieutenant ordered Private Thompson to retreat. He refused. He said he was going to stay, and if he couldn't make it back he would at least "take a lot of the enemy with me." His squad leader and another G.I. tried to drag him away. Badly wounded, he fought them off. The last the platoon saw of Soldier Thompson, the Koreans were closing in, lobbing grenades at his still-chattering machine...