Word: lurch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lurch that Failed. On the plane manifest he was listed as Lucio Lee, but his real name was Ang Tiv-chok; he had left Amoy, in South China, in 1947, and now was wanted by the Philippines for attempted murder...
...rich, man-eating tigress who loves him enough to keep him in style and stake him to a nightclub, but who coolly leaves him before he can leave her, is vividly hardboiled. For once, musicomedy plays with people rather than paper dolls, and shows them left in the lurch rather than led to the altar. (Equally raffish on the surface, Guys and Dolls is far more romantic underneath...
Britain's Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison finished his Scandinavian holiday by eating a codfish and champagne lurch with Queen Louise and King
...fact, most of the time Harry Truman appeared to be riding his program no-hands, only putting his head down and beginning to pump when he saw some political advantage. He had given his supporters in Congress almost no help. More than once he had left them in the lurch. But to lay it all on Harry Truman was to overlook the 82nd's own wobblings, digressions and busyness with grubby politics...
Eight hundred M.I.T. students were left in the lurch Tuesday night when Cambridge police forced cancellation of a scheduled showing of "Ecstasy." The banning was the first repercussion of Councillor Edward A. Sullivan's order, approved unanimously by the city council last Monday, that the License Bureau show more care in issuing movie permits...