Word: limpingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...carefully prepared White Paper, Tory Minister Swinton let it be clearly understood that Britain will not limp into international postwar air competition with one monopolistic chosen instrument (British Overseas Airways Corp.); it will enter the postwar international air race with three. The new chosen...
With big-league baseball still in the hoping stage-hoping to limp through another season, mostly on minor league manpower-the baseball news of the week came from Hawaii. There the Navy had assembled not one but two bona fide big-league teams. Managed by Lieut. Bill Dickey, late of the Yankees, the sailors were packing their seabags for an exhibition tour of the farthest-flung Pacific posts. The batting order...
Plain Man. The old man was not a great orator; but the U.S. always stopped and listened when he spoke. He was not an impressive figure of a statesman: his baggy, old-fashioned suit was topped by a limp string of bow tie; his droopy eyelids, under bushy brows, made him look perpetually tired. But people always looked at him. An avowed pacifist, he was one of the "little group of willful men" who blocked Woodrow Wilson's 1917 plan to arm the merchant marine, and he also voted against World War I. But he left isolationism back...
...tall officer-another lieutenant-walks into the C.P. He limps. He stares at me in the half light-it is now dusk-and seems to expect me to say something. So I ask him how he's doing. "Not so good," he says. He sits, and holds his head in his hands a while. Another shell bursts overhead; he falls rather than dives to the floor. Still lying beside him, the other lieutenant asks how things have been going. The lieutenant with the limp says that he has lost two of his three armored cars. He says...
...tirelessly trumpets the Hellcat record. In the first five months of this year, Navy pilots officially blasted out of the air 444 Jap planes, destroyed another 323 on the ground. The Navy lost only 71 planes, mainly because Hellcats, when they are seemingly held together only by will power, limp home to their carriers somehow. In the battle of the Marianas, which Navy flyers scoffingly call the "turkey shoot," Hellcats shot down 360 Jap planes in one day, the greatest aerial bag of the war. In this combat, the Navy lost only 22 planes...