Word: lurch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pursuit of Nymphets. The theme of Nabokov's Lolita is the carnal pursuit of a twelve-year-old American girl named Dolores Haze by a middle-aged European emigre in the U.S. named Humbert Humbert. The lurch toward the farcical, implicit in the hero's name, sets the mood and tempo of the entire work. The first of the novel's two volumes becomes an elaborately breakneck, amorally funny chase that mixes the Marx Brothers with Krafft-Ebing. This blurs but does not erase the underlying sensuality of Humbert's admittedly perverse tastes...
...rather live on bread alone, there are other ways to get your vitamins. For pure satisfaction, nothing beats sitting in the house library until the evening visit of the milk-and-doughnuts man. Lurch nosily to your feet at his whistle, and lope the length of the library with hunger in every movement. It drives the poor grinds nuts...
...Every hour counts, every hour lost may be paid for in blood and disorder," cried Paris' Combat. Last week the fate of France's empire in North Africa continued its lurch toward decision. Both sides-the Arabs, who impatiently demand a measure of independence, and the French colonists, who would deny it to them-knew...
Fiery cheerleader, Peter T. Lurch immediately suggested a male and female protest meeting at President's Dodd's House, but most students contacted thought the best thing to do would be to head for New York...
...runway at 80 m.p.h., then eased on the brakes to test the 95-ton plane's ground response. After the first ground run, Tex gave his opinion: "A lovely ship." But Tex spoke too soon. Taxiing slowly after the fourth high-speed run, Johnson felt a shuddering lurch. Supports of the plane's left main landing gear buckled, ripped backward and up through the wing root. Boeing's bright hope sagged over on her left wing and lay there like a broken bird...