Word: limpingly
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...nearby Preeceville, was told that both were on vacation. A nurse at the Preeceville Hospital told him to take the baby to Yorkton, 91 miles away. On the road, says Derhousoff, "I began to realize it was a race with death." Three miles from Yorkton, the baby went limp in his mother's arms. Derhousoff tried mouth-to-mouth breathing, but the baby was dead on arrival at the hospital...
...talking as if they would like to force a fall election, but few political observers at the moment share their conviction that the results would be much different. Canada, a nation still in economic difficulty despite its recent devaluation of the dollar to 92½?, seems destined to limp along as best it can with a government lacking a parliamentary majority...
...that the President has not canceled because of hard reporting by our greatly respected staff or because of the critical nature of our editorial page . . . We hope the President will instruct his assistants to renew the White House subscriptions. And soon." If not, added the Trib later, it would limp along with its other Washington subscribers-notably the U.S. Information Agency (94 copies), the State Department (20), Secretary of State Rusk and the Attorney General (one each...
...professor I had in college," said a visiting headmaster. In clipped tones, Scott never stops pushing his students into the past. He even twangs the guitar and sings obscure colonial tunes. He drives himself so hard by day, says one teacher, that "at night the man is as limp as an old circus balloon." In theory, concentrating on relatively few events should force Scott to shortchange his students on others. In practice, Scott does not neglect "facts." His students do very well on College Board tests...
...Limp with exhaustion when he finally withdrew backstage, Janis was congratulated by Prokofiev's widow. Said Tchaikovsky Prizewinner Vladimir Ashkenazy: "I have never heard Prokofiev played so brilliantly." As for the fans waiting for autographs at the stage door, they seemed to be struck by Janis' remarkable resemblance to the young Chopin, and by the fact, as one of them put it, that "one can tell by his face that he suffers while he plays...