Word: limpingly
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Despite a limp (one leg is shorter than the other), he has rolled more perfect (300) games, 68 in all, than anyone else. He can and does bowl with either hand, with both at the same time, with his foot. In Detroit, where bowling goes biggest in the U.S., he gets $900 a week when he puts on exhibitions. Says he: "If I'd been a golfer, I would have putted with precision. As a bowler, I am a master of rhythm." Varipapa's confidence is unbruised by the fact that in 16 tries he has never...
Four horse races had been run off smoothly when the announcement came: there would be a special added attraction. As the 1,100 spectators watched, a goose was hung by the feet from the gibbet. It hung limp, its wings free, its long, greased neck dangling. Out onto the track rode four gentlemen riders on muleback, dressed in breeches, boots and gaily colored shirts...
That ended it. The four gentlemen riders had had enough sport. The goose, a limp mass of crumpled feathers, was taken down. In the crowd, some cheered, some laughed, some looked grim. South Carolina's ancient sport of goose pulling had been revived...
...midst of it, he fired his gun. The seven Russians stared blankly as the French girls scooted down the track. Then the Russians caught on. Their faces set in stern concentration, their legs pumping like pistons in a Magnitogorsk factory, they charged down the track, past the limp bunting on the grandstand, past the mudstreaked posters advertising the virtues of L'Humanite and the Communist Party...
...very phrase "educators' conference" suggests somehow a group of limp, ineffectual men who foregather periodically to offer noble, impractical suggestions to universities which receive them in stony silence. Actually, educators are capable of saying things that need listening to and the conclusions of last week's conference including Dean Emeritus Roscoe Pound-which met at Princeton, were bright, forthright, and in large measure need acting on. Their big, blunt theme is that the world's universities are "strongholds of nationalism," that, "so long as this is true, universities actually can unwittingly promote war," and that "they should have one responsibility...