Word: limpingly
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...surrealism in this book; things that you know he's thinking but could not be literally true, even when presented to you literally. Even though he picks up the man-nerisms of the people he's with, it's far-fetched to believe that he'd pick up the limp of a guy he work with and not be aware of what he's doing. So twice he walks into the house and his wife says "You've been with Kagle today." (Kagle is Slocum's limping co-worker). And he says, "How do you know?" So he didn...
Bowie Kuhn, Commissioner of Baseball, must dream about Septembers like this. All too often the coming of crisp evenings means limp competition -pennant races already decided, games being played for the sake of the schedule. Last week, for a change, there were tight races in three of the four major league divisions, providing more drama than any September has seen since baseball expanded...
...early morning hours, just after the two are beaten up and robbed by a group of thugs, led by a man who suspected Charlie and Bill of cheating him earlier that evening. Punched in the face, chopped in the ribs, kicked in the groin, the two manage to limp back to the house where Charlie and the whores live. While the two bandage themselves in the bathroom, one of the women appears from the kitchen dressed in a robe and carrying a box of cereal. "Well," she asks in a tone polite but indifferent, "would you like some breakfast...
Dwight James Worker, 28, a San Francisco clothing manufacturer, tried to hide coke in a body cast and was nabbed when a sharp-eyed Mexican customs official noted that he had trouble remembering which leg had the limp. Charles Richard Helms, 25, selected in a lottery by some of his classmates at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa., to smuggle coke through Mexico, was caught with 2.6 kilos concealed under his bell-bottom trousers. Katherine Lou Simmons, 25, a Hollywood pianist, was arrested when officials discovered that her roundly curved belly was not a sign of pregnancy...
...Holland and West Germany. That so-called "total football" involves mobilizing an entire team for rushes against an opponent's goal. But total football is apparently a forgotten strategy. Staid defense quickly took over the competition. In the opening game, defending champion Brazil played Yugoslavia to a limp 0-0 tie. Eight other uninspiring ties followed...