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...Lord Offside? Lord Altrincham's indignation was the greater because, he wrote, "The Queen and the Queen Mother are patrons of the league, and Princess Alice is its president." To drag in royalty this way, commented the admiral, is "a pretty rotten thing. Definitely offside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Rebel on the Right | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

Similarly, Mrs. Anita Carroll of Issaquah, Wash., was reported slain primarily because she would have been a drag on the gang's escape...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Eden Cuts Short N.Z. Vacation, Flies to Boston's Lahey Clinic; Snow Storm Hits Great Plains | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

...headquarters: "We stopped the elevator between the first and second floors and we worked him over. I've never seen a guy get such a beating. Finally he slumped down on his knees. We took the elevator to the second floor, picked him up and started to drag him out. All of a sudden he exploded, swung around with his handcuffs, knocked one cop cold onto the concrete and gashed another. It took the whole damn force on duty to stop him. Tough? I never seen a man that tough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: FROM GOON TO GENT | 4/1/1957 | See Source »

...took only one Egyptian stall last week for Secretary of State Dulles to point to Egypt's "tendency to drag its feet." The U.S. was shifting its pressure from Israel to the dictator by the Nile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: The Doctrine & Beyond | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

...whoever wins the headline battles, the issues of new revenue and the other parts of the Governor's program (ranging from penal reforms to the establishment of performance budgets for state departments) will doubtless drag on long into hectic summer sessions, since Massachusetts legislators usually spend the first few months each year preoccupied with their insurance businesses, law practices, or local what-have...

Author: By Steven R. Rivkin, | Title: Governor Ascendant | 3/15/1957 | See Source »

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