Word: drags
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stomach felt funny. My neck swelled, and my ears felt hot. "By God!" I thought, "I'm going to drag that skunk from his Cadillac and push his face...
...care much for traveling. I like home." But on the court Beverly is all business, takes quiet pride in the fact that she is the only player in big-time tennis who can shift hands for each shot: "I play a gambling game, looking for quick winners. Why drag a match out for two hours if you can get it over with in 30 minutes...
...years 1939-41 many an American had accused the British of trying to drag the U.S. into war. Now, naturally enough, some Britons had the same feeling about the U.S. It was not accurate to call the British reaction "hysterical," although that was a favorite (and inaccurate) British word for Americans. Intelligent Britons feared that the U.S. would get bogged down in a war with Communist China and be unable to defend Europe...
...says Professor Myklebust, some parents become overprotective, allow the child to play tyrant, fail to prepare him for the problems ahead. Other parents take the opposite extreme; they make no allowances for the child, confront his handicap with open hostility. Still other parents weep in front of the child, drag him to specialist after specialist for further treatment...
...group of Labor M.P.s which all along has more or less secretly opposed Bevin's firm anti-Soviet policy. A few of these M.P.s are Communist fellow travelers, more of them are anti-American, or isolationist, or inspired by fear that the U.S. alliance will sooner or later drag Britain into a hot war with China and Russia. Said one Labor rebel last week: "I've been Bevin's admirer for years. But now it's different. A bull was never meant to walk a tightrope...