Word: lurch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other Vichy voices supplemented the Marshal's words, continued sounding the knell of French democratic hopes. The Vichy-controlled press was thick with phrases like "the common purpose of the European community. . . ." Said Vichy's official information service: "In May 1940, when France was left in the lurch by Britain, America did not see fit to answer her appeal. Today France, anxious to preserve her position as a great power as well as the integrity of her territory and of her Empire, has certainly the right to envisage with her victory the conditions of a common reorganization...
Trip 21 gave a lurch. Behind her in the rain swirled the twigs of a tall poplar. The cabin lights went out. She hurtled through spiked pines, bursting her guts horribly, flumped to the ground. There she roared at death and lay still. Then from her twisted frame, from the red Georgia earth where they had been thrown, her survivors began to shout, first to each other, then for help...
...snow. He flew blind; the snow had blotted out everything, and he had only his instruments to guide him. Wind mocked and rocked the great plane, smashed the cabin's windows. Spare parts spewed like hail through the cabin. A dreadful paralysis seized the plane; after each lurch, each drop in the wind, it seemed to recover a little more slowly, to climb a little less powerfully. Lieut. Han son knew why : ice was forming on the wings, and ice could drag him down to the land, where death was. He ordered his five non-commissioned men to bail...