Word: limped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...union men, most of them the young, tall, lean and laconic type which abounds in the east Tennessee hill country, didn't say much. They just piled into their cars and drove seven miles east to a valley called Lowland. They parked bumper-to-bumper close to a limp, dirty tent which was headquarters for the picket line. From there they could see the American Enka Corp.'s Lowland plant and almost hear the whir of machines turning out rayon yarn for automobile tires. For a while, at the end of March, Local 1054 had shut down...
...what is heard at the end is the sound of the ax hacking the heart out of The Cherry Orchard. Yet the real trouble with The Wisteria Trees is not that it falls short of Chekhov, but that on its own terms it is so frequently blurred and limp...
...touch of gout caused him to limp a bit as he climbed aboard the train, but otherwise, as far as anyone could remember later, Fish Karpe seemed his usual relaxed and cheerful self...
...Riggs Road to the Congressional Airport for practice at flying a glider, Godfrey had a head-on collision with a truck. He lay in a strait-jacket of bandages and casts for five months. For two years he could not bend his knees. He still walks with a slight limp...