Word: limpingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...coat, I noticed that there were several fingers missing from his left hand. He moved slowly [with] a slight limp. . . . And then I saw that his awkward walk was caused by his not having become accustomed to his artificial left...
...North Side gambling king. He was already in a reclining position, getting a barber shop shave, when hoodlums rubbed him out. John Pisano, a small-time gangster, was shot at the wheel of his car. The gunmen who murdered James D'Angelo, a gambler and saloonkeeper, trussed his limp body up with a clothesline, left it in the trunk of his automobile...
Winston Churchill pummeled his luncheon guest with questions about U.S. opinion. The answers perplexed him. Puzzled but polite, he carried on to the end, extended a limp hand to his departing guest. Back at his desk, he thumbed through a sheaf of favorite reading-brilliant, witty reports from Washington on U.S. reaction to world events. Long and frowningly he gazed at the signatures, wondered if he had been the victim of a practical joker. Orders were barked, secretaries investigated, Churchill was enlightened. The "I. Berlin" on the reports was Isaiah Berlin, economist, not Irving Berlin, guest...
...York City's famed Fifth Avenue, spirits undamped by a chill rain that made banners limp and drumheads soggy, tramped 48,000 of the faithful, colleens and patriarchs mostly, as the young Hibernians are off fighting again...
Before the Takeoff. Everything was ready so there was nothing to do but horse around, wrestling with Henry Zaborsky, our navigator, and shooting the bull with the ground crew. It was so warm that morning we were hot in flying clothes. And so still the wind sock was hanging limp...