Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...record-breaking qualifying trial, set the pace. At 300 miles, he withdrew when his Gilmore Special broke a spring shackle. The last of four new Ford V-8's went out at 360 miles. At 450 miles, a drizzle made the track slippery and officials waved the yellow flag. This meant that the speed limit was 75 m.p.h. and the drivers were to hold their relative positions. By the time the rain stopped, there were only 20 miles left. Kelly Petillo, who had taken the lead when Mays was forced out and held it ever since, knew then that...
...graceful. Although it is debatable whether Miss Roger's characterization is on a par with that of Myrna Loy in "The Thin Man," it is certainly true that she maintains throughout a certain vigor and sprightliness which lend color to the plot development. At no point does the interest flag, and the complexity of the situation holds the audience in a continual suspense which is climaxed by the dramatic ending of the picture...
Shouting into his mouthpiece, Il Duce wanted to know if his Geneva delegate remembered what day this was. It was the 20th anniversary of Italy's entry into the War. Throughout Italy since dawn it had been as fine a fiesta of flag waving as any Fascist could remember. From Naples 2,200 more troops had sailed for East Africa. There were parades and speeches in every provincial capital. In Rome gnarled little King Vittorio Emanuele presented new colors to 16 new regiments. Celebrating the ninth Fascist levy 150,000 young men throughout Italy joined the Fascist Militia...
...elfish News, as Yalemen quickly realized, was burlesquing William Randolph Hearst, but elsewhere in the land Red scares were no laughing matter. In Massachusetts Governor Curley signed a bill requiring every public school teacher to lead her class in a weekly salute to the flag. In Illinois a legislative committee heard Drugman Charles Rudolph Walgreen repeat his charges that the University of Chicago turned his buxom niece Lucille Norton into a Communist. California's legislature, angered by 18 University of California professors who ventured to protest its anti-radical bill, toyed with another bill which would bring...
Purpose of the meeting of tycoons, farmers' spokesmen, chemists, propagandists and journalists was to wave the U. S. flag, kick the New Deal, boost the Liberty League, damn bankers, irritate the petroleum industry and, most sincerely, to help the U. S. farmer earn a living by showing him and the rest of the nation how chemistry can turn farm products to industrial account...