Word: limpingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...history thus refused the spectacular, it was partly because the principal actor, Sir Stafford Cripps, was anything but glamorous. He stretched out the hand of British friendship, begging India to "accept and trust" it, but the proffered hand hung limp and ungrasped in the hot air of New Delhi...
Oblique Chat. The women of London could not so easily forget. Housewives fretted about paying tenpence for limp lettuce and a shilling for fist-sized cauliflower. They muddied their boots and sprained their elderly tweed skirts poking around in wartime garden plots while they dreamed of home-grown peas and tomatoes, talked about with such annoyingly leisured learnedness in Mr. Middleton's column in the Daily Express. Still, it was pleasant to read about-more pleasant than to chat obliquely about the strange restlessness that spring seemed to have released throughout the nation...
...Main Currents of American Thought a young radio hack who wants to do serious work trembles in a familiar trap-the support of his limp, whining family...
...equipment for more useful purposes than gold, and have complained that their gold labor is being wastefully used. Rock-bound old General Smuts is having trouble enough keeping his Union together in the face of political opposition, race problems and fifth columning. Though South Africa may have to limp along with no new equipment, a likelier spot for a real labor shift is Rhodesia, with some 75,000 gold miners. Rhodesia's copper production is a military secret, but is said to be lagging (TIME, Nov. 17). More miners might help...
...invocations of God and the flag, pounding his fist in his palm, swinging his arms in great sweeping gestures. Blond, burly John Gunther, master of the technique of sit-'em -in -the -chair -and -pace -'em -to-death interviewing, met Field Marshal Mac-Arthur, wound up limp in his seat while MacArthur paced roaring on. Always his thesis was the same: the Philippines could be defended, and by God, they would be defended...