Word: limped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...across the city, slid up the pine-covered face of Hakodate Head and The Peak, and enfolded the secret forts on the heights. The crows flapped up from the garbage in the slums to be whirled helplessly to the base of the two peaks, where they dropped on limp wings. Children hung their snow sleds beside the door and squatted down to a Hokkaido (Japan's New England) supper of fish, beans and rice. In the Bay a forest of masts swayed wildly. But wind and cold are nothing new to the citizens of Hakodate, Japan's ninth...
...limp and resigned like a prone eggshell) Yes, I will. My God, why must you men wreak this savage destruction...
...hand. He clumped up a stepladder, lifted the box's lid. climbed down inside. A few slow seconds went by. A thick-gloved hand waved feebly. A spectator shouted. There was a quick cluster of men around the box as a dozen hands lifted out a limp figure. A physician named David H. Shulman removed the mask, found Mark Ridge's face cherry-red, said he would have been killed in an other five seconds by fumes which had leaked into the mask. Intrepid Mark Ridge recovered quickly. To a newshawk who appeared two days later, a Liquid...
Returning to a cabin by the Shannon, she lost herself in reading for two years and began conributing to various London journals. A spill while fox hunting gave her a limp for life and, when she finally drifted to Hollywood, narrowed the scope of her acting roles. Detemined to win literary fame, she fied to a mountain cabin near Santa Barbara, carrying four hundred volumes annexed during her wanderings. She wrote two novels and then got gold fever. After encountering nine milion deerflies without panning enough pay dirt to blind one of them, she went down to the seashore...
...floor and catching at his opponent's body for support as he falls. The referee is moving rapidly toward them. The victor, himself half punch-drunk, is swaying crazily, arms raised above his head. There is an excellent sincerity about this lithograph that is quite commendable. The limp body of the vanquished; the tense, triumphant face of the victor; and the referee's alert attitude have been well caught. But it must also be admitted that the body of the victor is not too carefully drawn. The large muscle in the right armpit is unfortunately exaggerated, and both deltoids have...