Word: lurch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hand, Austria hoped for U.S.-British aid and dreaded being left in the lurch by the West. A simple news item like General Mark Clark's confinement to Walter Reed Hospital (because of an ear infection) created a minor sensation. Jittery Chancellor Leopold Figl, formerly a model of imperturbability, inquired whether Clark's illness was not political...
Informer. In Tulsa, sheriff's deputies watched a drunken pig lurch down the street, followed it straight to the drainpipe of a still...
...Lurch & a Prayer. In Gary, Mrs. Lylas Hazllett, her car stalled in front of an onrushing train, 1) ordered two riders to bail out, 2) went into gear, 3) stepped on the starter, 4) advanced in painful lurches, 5) lost her rear bumper...
While the big, drab supply trucks lurch slowly over the scrubby, khaki-grey plateau of southern Persia, bearing Lend-Lease supplies to Russia, Persia remains on the United Nations payroll. If the Allies seize all of the Mediterranean, the cumbersome overland route to Russia may be abandoned; Persia will be out in the cold. Shrewd Persian Premier Ali Soheily added these facts last week,came up with a neat sum-Persia declared war on Germany to become eligible: 1) for Lend-Lease; 2) for a seat at the peace table...
...front of the seventh car, a journal (wheel bearing) burned out. With a tremendous lurch, the train snapped in two. In the rear cars, there were a few ghastly moments when the passengers' felt as if the train were floating through air. Then the crash...