Word: drags
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been waging last-ditch battles against socialism for 30 years. From ditch to ditch they have retreated, but they drag their guns along, ever convinced that the hole they're in at the moment is "The American...
William R. Polk '51, one of the newly elected Councilmen, said last night that the new Council was determined "not to drag out the matter of constitutional revision with talk and talk...
...portrait of a poor white who, after years of loyalty, rebels against his landlord; Dry September, a lynching story to end all lynching stories; A Courtship, a richly comic tall tale about the love rivalry of a white man and an Indian in early igth Century America; and Death Drag, a harrowing story about three hungry, neurotic stunt flyers...
...approaches are deceptively peaceful. Water buffaloes patiently drag plows through the flooded rice fields; wiry little peasant women in circular straw hats, chocolate-colored jackets and black trousers pitpat swiftly along the roads in bare feet, carrying produce to market in baskets balanced on poles over their shoulders. As my jeep left the road and followed the twisting, hedged lane that led to Bai Trang, war -or preparations for war-sprang to view. A rough stone wall protected the village. It bore the crudely painted inscription: "Da dao bon pha dinh pha dinh chua ro nha" (Down with...
...girl's own personality should not be allowed to intrude. For "Mr. Pleased-to-meet-you," the Rotarian type, "be a good saleswoman and drag out the wares you know will attract him-social position, education, prominent friends." Tell the flashy spender, "You're awfully good to people." For the stingy man, "make a virtue of his cautiousness by talking disparagingly of the man who throws his money around." Intellectuals should not intimidate her. "They all think more or less alike," says Miss Carlyle. "Some reading from the books of his authorities will give you the confidence...