For well over half a century, taking his cues from both Marx and Kinsey, he chased a dream of a "golden brotherhood," and that night, sporting an oxygen tube and a crown of purple pansies, the original pinko-Commie-queer seemed the very picture of a dream achieved as a man in naughty nurse drag wheeled him out to greet the crowd.
Every day I was in Gogjali, hundreds of dirty, hungry, sleep-deprived civilians wandered up Highway 2. A few dragged wheeled suitcases, but most hauled whatever belongings they'd chosen to salvage in shopping bags or in rice sacks converted into backpacks.
"But it's a constant grind to drag our wheels around.
As tempting as it is to linger with friends, cyclists know to drag their wheels back to the city while the sugar still churns in their systems.
But the train carrying that son of a bitch Lucien was dragging its wheels.
With little inertia, friction or drag, the wheel can be spun up to speed in a trice, and then made to dump its rotational energy back into the car's transmission in seconds.
And suddenly the drummers appear, parading through the slum, dragging on wheels a huge statue of Durga a Hindu goddess, a multi-limbed and multi-coloured giantess, astride a tiger.On the drum-roll, the processors pause, and golden flares explode either side of the statue.
It gets to be a crummy routine, but it's a routine nonetheless.' Frank Lach, for instance, who owns Criger's Auto Body in Fairfield, spent the day of the storm dispatching drivers to drag four-wheel drive vehicles out of ditches.
Push down on the lever and drag the wheel across the tile with even pressure to cut through the glazed surface.
The motor would draw on a battery, and the battery would be recharged by letting the front wheels drag a little -- using the motor as a generator, converting torque to electricity instead of vice-versa.
