Word: limpingly
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...first encountered a Runyonesque character who called himself Colonel Martin Snyder. Actually, the colonel had been born Moses Snyder in a West Side slum, and the closest he had come to the military life was in the Chicago gang wars. Known familiarly as "The Gimp" because of a pronounced limp attributed to 17 shotgun slugs in his leg, Snyder soon proved his ability as a show-business Svengali. He married Ruth and managed her from dingy nightspots to nationwide popularity. But the incessant obbligato to her torch songs was Snyder's fearsome behind-the-scenes frenzies. Mostly, his uncontrolled...
...Government and the airlines. Both the Post Office Department and the Civil Aeronautics Board are anxious to encourage helicopters, and both have been experimenting for years. But the program is sporadic and small-scale. Now the Government must decide whether to push ahead rapidly or let helicopters limp along without help...
Serov did not belong either to the presidium of party or government. An old GPU agent, whose most notable exploits were liquidating the Baltic and Chechen peoples during World War II, Serov is a tall, cadaverous man who walks unevenly. The Germans knew him as "the one with the limp." They made his acquaintance in the Ukraine, where he is said to have worked with Khrushchev...
...inhale flames, and crashed in the Potomac River. His jaw and left leg were broken. Doctors decided to amputate the leg, but by sheer chance, a new chief surgeon reported for duty and agreed to delay the operation. The leg was saved, but Pride still walks with a limp. Says he: "I have to carry a little left rudder all the time...
...Buenos Aires last week, competitors in the Argentine Grand Prix took part in one of the hottest motor races on record. As the temperature soared to 104° in the shade, drivers wilted like limp lettuce, and some dropped out to recuperate from heat exhaustion every few laps on the burning 2.4-mile track. Cars changed hands so often that a partisan crowd, rooting for Argentine Favorite José Froilan González in his Italian Ferrari, often found itself cheering his teammates, France's Maurice Trintignant or Italy's Giuseppe Farina...