Word: limpness
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...watch and fountain pen, a Russian major lent them a truck to carry the salvaged parts back to Torun airstrip. To get the salvaged engine into place, Ruckman traded his own, non-G.I. revolver for the use of a hoist. By mid-March, Star Dust was able to limp to Italy, then back to England, where Ruckman rejoined his outfit and flew ten more missions, eight of them in Star Dust...
...morning swim. A year ago while Jakobson was hiking along a highway, a car struck him. For an hour he lay helpless until an ambulance finally came, and doctors say only his excellent physical condition saved him from death. The accident left him with a slight limp, but he uses a came only in icy weather...
...hand he gripped a cane. His right arm was hidden inside a dangling coat sleeve. Thorez looked worried as he noticed the 150 yards he had to go to his car. Flanked by his wife and the saturnine Casanova, he walked with difficulty, taking small steps, with a pronounced limp. It took him ten minutes to cover the distance. Outside the station he struck a smiling pose for photographers, carefully hiding his right arm. Someone said: "How do you feel?" Said Thorez: "Very well, you see." He was helped into a black Delahaye limousine and stretched out on the back...
Lois Marshall's triumph came with a rush, at the end of a long, uphill pull. When she was 2½, she came down with polio, and the disease left her with a painful limp. Moreover, in her determination to succeed as a singer, she developed as a youngster such a grimly serious manner that her voice teacher, Toronto's Weldon Kilburn, feared she would never charm an audience. But when she gave her first recital at 15, she dropped her determined air and radiated...
...away, swat a fly, squash a bug or land a fish. ¶A boxer who had his opponent on the ropes, but could not bring himself to deliver the finishing punch. ¶Tennis players who, in the middle of a volley, drop the racket and either go limp in the arm or fall down...