Word: limpingly
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...From the sack of Shanghai (TIME, Sept. 13): the dead being flopped into trucks like limp loads of fat codfish; the scorched, wailing baby in the railway station square, quite alone except for acres of dead and the newsreel cameramen...
...this point Poet MacLeish's verse-commentary develops such an intense poetical potential that its accompanying photographs seem limp beside it. But, next page...
Beside its case-hardened picture, this soft-boiled conclusion seems not only limp but incompatible...
...company guards shot the Communist. Ensued a terrific free-for-all which seemed like fine convincing stuff to the audience. And it was. Carried away by the action, the mob had suddenly taken violent sides, started swinging at each other in earnest. When the curtain came down, three limp actors were stretched out on the stage...
Nightmares limp round Snow White in the gloomy forest. From the bushes, thorns reach crooked hands to tear her; eyes glare from the shadows and bad whispers ride the wind. Snow White is sobbing helplessly when the glaring eyes draw nearer, become friendly. The docile creatures of the wood, wild-eyed because they are as frightened as Snow White, quickly make friends-bush-tailed squirrels and striped chipmunks, birds, horny turtles, and a big-eyed, bangtailed buck. Joyously they lead Snow White to a slovenly little hut they know of. When the dwarfs who own the hut return from their...