Word: limpingly
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...mile trek to city hall. After they had gone a few hundred yards and turned into a narrower street, police ordered them to walk in only one lane. A heated argument ensued, and suddenly the marchers began sprawling across the roadway, blocking a busy intersection. Some went limp as cops carried them to waiting paddy wagons; others kicked, bit and screamed...
...first time in 128 years, Baltimore was without a newspaper. After six weeks of name-calling negotiations, the 728-man Newspaper Guild struck the Sun. The paper managed to limp along for three days last week with a skeleton staff. Then the drivers and printers refused to cross the picket lines; and the morning, evening and Sunday Suns were forced to shut down. Baltimore's only other paper, Hearst's News-American, also closed down in support...
...series that took place in New York. Detroit, San Francisco, England, and Nigeria. In New York, 500 demonstrators gathered outside the main entrance of the Chase Manhattan Bank while 44 others were arrested for blocking one of the exits. When police tried to remove them, the picketers went limp and had to be dragged away...
...wiles into a man's world. For that, she has been called a nag and a vixen. "If a man raises his voice, it is impressive. But if I do, they say I'm hysterical, so I try to hypnotize them instead," she admits. Her limp sometimes becomes more conspicuous if she seems to be in danger of losing an argument with a temperamental soprano. When total rebellion looms on an imminent horizon, she has been known to quell it by warning that one more word will bring on a heart attack. Nonetheless, as a spokesman...
...Sousa marches, came to a jarring finale last week. In the chill of dawn, naturalized U.S. Citizen Farhan Attassi, 37, was hanged in Damascus' Al Marjah Square. Attached to the white robe customary for a condemned criminal was a large poster stating the verdict. For seven hours the limp body swayed on the gibbet, watched by curious crowds, before it was cut down and taken away for burial. On the same day, Attassi's cousin and alleged accomplice in spying for the U.S., Syrian Lieut. Colonel Abdel Muin Hakemi, 43, was shot in the courtyard of a Damascus...