Word: limpingly
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...Bertolotti down 11-4 in the clinching game when the two collided. Grant came up game, but with a strained ankle. Then Bertolotti, who might have gone on to win, gave the gallery a courtly sample of the honor among racqueteers. He lobbed the next few shots, let Grant limp home the victor. The final, scheduled for next day, was postponed until March...
...lamp. He shouted for his wife. A doctor came to his side. "Your wife," said he, '"is dead." Horrified, Dr. Lockhart broke into convulsive sobs. At first he could remember nothing of the previous evening, but later, he dimly recalled his wife's body, "very cold and limp" in his arms...
Siegfried et al. In the early 1920s, when the late Enrico Caruso died and Soprano Geraldine Farrar retired, the Metropolitan's Italian opera began to limp downhill. But its Wagnerian opera has goosestepped steadily on. When big, blue-eyed Soprano Kirsten Flagstad joined the company in 1935, Wagnerian opera began to boom, played to the biggest box office the Met has known since Caruso's day. Principal drawing card in the Met's Wagnerian productions was Soprano Flagstad's bosomy personality and earth-mother voice. But she could not have done it all by herself. Supporting...
Court of Missing Heirs turned up two long-lost heirs apparent, one with a limp, the other with an alias, each with a newsworthy story...
...rumpled suit scratched his pen steadily across the large white sheets. In the stillness of the Oval Room the two flags hung limp on the mahogany standards; blue smoke from his burning cigaret wavered up from the silver tray. On his desk were newspapers, staring headlines of bombings and battles; and a Bible, open at Isaiah...