Word: lumbering
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...footing and went sprawling among the boulders, his long legs waving madly to and fro. We couldn't stop, for our would-be visitors were now only a few hundred yards behind, but, looking back a moment later, I saw the poor brute get to its feet and lumber along after...
Debussy, Honegger, Stravinsky; composed the first U. S. opera with a U. S. story, "The Scarlet Letter." His orchestra was the first to lumber across this continent, and, after the war, across Europe. He orig- inated young people's concerts...
...case 50 years ago. I refer to such things as leaving wagons and farm machinery out in the fields or outside the barn or shed in all kinds of weather, permitting window panes to be missing, doors and gates off the hinges, fences out of order, piles of wood, lumber and stones around the buildings where they ought not to be; stumps and stones in a tillable field when they might be removed; piles of rubbish around the place that ought to be burned if no value...
...then suddenly his smile twisted into agony-sharp, devastating pain arose within him. The doctors said: "Ulcers of the stomach." In the Mercy Hospital "Paddy" Carr suffered, writhed and dreamed. Perhaps he visioned a spunky newsboy laughing in spite of the stench sf the Union Stock Yards, a lumber shover on a schooner coming up; the Chicago River, a sidewalk inspector with ambition, an alderman whose jokes were understandable, a county treasurer who did not annoy the people, a sheriff-elect who was dying...
Roland H. Hartley, lumber-mag-rate, Governor of Washington: "To combat the recall movement (TIME, Nov. 1) started against me by friends of Dr. Henry Suzzallo, whom I had ousted as president of the University of Washington, I recently commenced publication of a little magazine called Hartley's Weekly. But I still am not without troubles. The other day, when walking past a high school building near the capitol, I heard a downy-cheeked, 14-year-old lad yell: 'There goes old Hartley-he's going to get it in the neck when the recall comes...