Word: limpingly
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...manipulated the strings that pull the geographical subdivisions, the racial and religious antagonisms of Canada into one nation. Last week the issue of conscription for overseas service threatened to snarl the strings as badly as it did in World War I. But the great manipulator's fingers were limp...
...been sacrificed on it during the night. . . . The colour of spilt blood is not properly a colour, it is in itself discoloured, it is a visible display of putrescence. In every crevice of the red-brown rock there had been stuck wax candles, which now hung down in a limp fringe of greasy yellow tails, smeared with blood...
MacKinney appeared on the field complete with cleats and shoulder guards, but also with a serviceable pair of crutches which he did not hesitate to use. Wayne Johnson, another Dartmouth casualty, still has a slight limp and he spent the day on the field doing light work...
...next day the Germans warned that "all classes" of Parisians were subject to reprisals. That night the Germans surprised Parisian saboteurs wrecking Army trucks in a garage. The saboteurs escaped. The next day the Germans shot ten "Communists," the following day twelve other men. France's limp, aged Marshal Henri Philippe Petain took to the air, urged his people to complete submission to Germany for their own good...
Eventually Sebold landed in California, wandered over the U.S., married in New York at 33, became a U.S. citizen, worked for Consolidated Aircraft in California, gradually lost touch with the Vaterland. After some years Sebold, now a 200-lb., 6-foot man with a slight limp, and a brooding expression, packed up, went back to the Rhineland town where he was born, for a long visit with his family...