Word: limpingly
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Greasy-faced, German-serving Pierre Laval, who was shot in Paris last fortnight by German-hating Paul Collette, got out of bed last week. In his Versailles hospital a doctor helped him limp down the hall to see his fellow victim, German-serving Editor Marcel Déat of L'Oeuvre...
From London to the U.S. went Columnist Dorothy Thompson, followed by a story from British Columnist Hannen Swaffer. The story: At a dinner party talkative Thompson talked everybody limp. Suddenly Lord Beaverbrook interrupted, cried: "Thompson, shut up. . . . If you're not quiet, I'll tell a story about you." He told it anyhow: how he had once found Churchill in the dumps, had played for him a recording of one of Thompson's praiseful speeches about him. At record's end "the sorrow seemed to drop off his shoulders and he looked a young man again...
...tons. When steel uses aluminum, it uses it up completely, and around a quarter of its products require virgin metal. But die castings need only scrap, and represent a scrap reservoir. Yet all steel has an A-10 or better priority rating on aluminum, while die castings limp along in the Bs, getting only 10 to 40% of their 1940 consumption...
...Washington's Griffith Stadium one night last week 25,000 fight fans yelled themselves limp. It was the first round of Washington's first world-championship heavyweight fight, and there, hanging over the ropes head first, was Joe Louis, the champ. The boxer who had dumped him on to the ring apron was 25-year-old Buddy Baer, baby brother of onetime
...most colonial experts outside Germany, the Nazis' colonial drum used to sound pretty limp from banging, was not a very compelling instrument. Even Adolf Hitler in Mein Kampf loudly disclaimed colonial ambitions, insisted rather on the European expansion of the Reich. He knew perfectly well, for instance, that all the African colonies which the Allies took from Germany after World War I had cost Germany far more than they were worth, had accounted for only one two-hundredth of Germany's trade, had attracted less than 20,000 German colonizers...