Word: lurch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spoke, a couple of baby-faced plainclothesmen boarded the train and went down the aisle of car after car, peering into each compartment. The train started with a lurch. "At last," breathed the blonde girl sitting opposite...
Eight of them were dead almost as soon as the earth beneath their feet began to lurch. Falling bricks or masonry killed an eleven-year-old schoolboy in Tacoma, an 18-year-old student in Castle Rock, a 70-year-old man in Centralia and a 62-year-old steamfitter in Olympia. Three old men and a woman died of heart attacks. Dozens of others suffered broken bones, bruises or wounds from flying glass...
...first novel in this new series, Adventures of a Young Man, told the raw, resentful story of middle-class Radical Glenn Spotswood who became a Red organizer, was forced to leave his striking worker comrades in the lurch after a twist of party line, was expelled from the party for "deviations," and then died a lonely death in Spain at the hands of his ex-comrades...
Matthew Necley, championed by John L. Lewis and unions in general, bad an easy evening piling up votes over West Virginia's arch-conservative Senator, Chapman Revercomb, who had been left to lurch for himself by Republican chieftains. Senator Robertson of Wyoming lost out to Democrat Lester Hunt, whose sprightly campaign--contrasted with the pedestrian tactics of his opponent--was typical of many of the Democratic victories...
...depression in the U.S.? Says Miss Ward: maybe. There are few present signs that a depression is imminent but there are also few signs that the U.S. has learned how to master the bust & boom cycle. Will the U.S. return to isolationism and leave Europe in the lurch? Says Miss Ward: definitely not. Is the U.S. imperialist? Says Miss Ward: nonsense...