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Word: dragging (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were dancing. Most of the girls were sitting or standing in clots, trying to look conspicuous. Most of the boys were wandering around, sizing up bods, looking for that Girl-in-the-Sky. Later on, they'd go back to their roommates and report how it was such a drag, and well, no, they hadn't met anybody...

Author: By Marilyn F. Kalata, | Title: Hello . . . My Name Is . . . | 3/25/1969 | See Source »

...read the car market and all you can say is "You dumb foot drag-gers-you in Detroit-what took you so long to know imports were going to hit a million?" Now the market is damn well defined, and you know what the market says: "Give me a hell of a good buy for two grand, will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: THE MAKING OF THE MAVERICK | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

...sensitive enough so you don't find it amusing to see someone humiliate himself for a laugh. Maybe you can feel proud that you get indignant when others clap gleefully for two midget wrestlers who are making fools of themselves for money. But somehow it's kind of a drag not to be able to laugh...

Author: By Marilyn F. Kalata, | Title: And Then a Woman's View--'Pathetic' | 3/8/1969 | See Source »

...that the central character, who supposedly takes up where Mother Courage left off, is miscast. Emme Davidson is simply too healthy for the role. Wrapped in black, reclining on a couch, and sentenced to deliver her lines in a self-righteous singsong, she's like Truman Capote in drag. Well, let's just say Truman Capote period, and leave it at that...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: The Turncoats & The Last War's End | 3/7/1969 | See Source »

...different. So rock had to be creative, and each generation of high school kids grew out of liking it--or rather, they were pushed out. But now Mick Jagger throws a party that Lord Harlech comes to. What have you got? People who are going to drag rock music into middle age with them...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: IS ROCK DEAD? | 2/27/1969 | See Source »

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