Word: limpingly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...haunted Municipal Lodging House. He would pass the morning reading tattered newspapers. At eleven, he would pick up his crutches (to which his spare shoes and a bundle of other belongings were lashed) and get a chicken fricassee dinner. Then, slowly, he would go back to the heap of limp newspapers...
...down by Navy Secretary James V. Forrestal, Assistant Secretary of State William L. Clayton, former Budget Director Lewis Douglas. (The bank denied an Associated Press story that Secretary of Commerce Averell Harriman had also been offered the job.) Unless a head was forthcoming soon, the Bank would have to limp along with an interim president-a state of affairs that would enhance neither its own prestige nor the cause of world reconstruction...
...copper. I gave her a piece of chocolate to suck. I laid my Home Guard respirator beside me and turned on the gas. I played with Jessie and kissed her goodbye. Then I had to put on my respirator. She closed her eyes and then went limp...
Last week Moscow's big Dynamo Stadium, which looks like a Hotchkiss firstformer's dream of the Yale Bowl, put on a show that made the U.S. collegiate spirit look limp. Occasion: the Soviet Union jutbol (soccer) championship final between Moscow's red-jerseyed Spartak eleven (made up of cooperative workers) and the blue-jerseyed Dynamo team from Tiflis (who represented the Georgian Republic's interior ministry...
...Jack Teagarden, Paul Whiteman. In 1935, he bet someone that an accordion could be made to swing, learned to play the thing and became accordionist in Whiteman's band. Then in 1943 an auto accident put him in a cast for 18 months, left him with a permanent limp. Last March he rounded up Clarinetist Andy Fitzgerald, Guitarist Jack Hotop and Bass Player Gate Frega, sold them on his basic idea: "Erase the labels from music. Stop thinking about 'jive,' 'swing,' 'sweet' and 'jump.' Just play music...