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...NATO purchasers do not want to rely on the neutral Swedes for so important a component of their national arsenals. This left the French and Americans, whose planes are comparable in size, speed and cost. All three compete favorably with the Soviet Union's new MIG-23 Flogger and even with the MIG-25 Foxbat at altitudes up to 50,000 ft. Still, there are major differences (see chart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATO: Technopolitics in the Air | 9/23/1974 | See Source »

...flogger (underworld; archaic)-overcoat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: FROM ABE'S CABE TO ZOOLY A Slang Sampler | 7/11/1960 | See Source »

...most addicts, Nuvolari is II Maestro, "indis putably the greatest driver who ever lived." Not on "dull" tracks like the Indianapolis Speedway did II Maestro show his genius, but in grueling road races run day & night. Nuvolari, now 60 and retired, was "hard on his mounts, a great flogger of automobiles, a car killer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pull Over to the Side | 6/16/1952 | See Source »

...shows they can't always get, all too often get routine stuff they don't want. But in Virginia the Richmond Defense Service Unit of OCD has lately struck gold in an abandoned mine. Again & again at Camp Lee and Fort Eustis, that venerable grog-flogger. Ten Nights in a Barroom, has left the boys looping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Army Takes to Drink | 4/13/1942 | See Source »

When first seen in Viva Villa, Pancho (Phillip Cooper) is a ten-year-old peon brat watching the underlings of a haciendado beat the life out of Villa Sr. He shoots the flogger, scampers into the hills. He is next to be observed grown up into Wallace Beery, head of a plundering horseback gang, with a lieutenant named Sierra (Leo Carillo) and a childlike appetite for shootings and hangings. When Francisco Madero (Henry B. Walthall), who was historically Mexico's president from November 1911 to February 1913. appears on the scene he realizes Villa's usefulness, invites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 16, 1934 | 4/16/1934 | See Source »

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