Word: lurch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that Brown doesn't have good swimmers, Harvard Coach Bill Brooks said Monday. It's just that there has been a fantastic improvement in Eastern swimming over the past few years which has left the Bruins somewhat in the lurch...
...personality-implying that it is simply trying to compensate for its tepid past with noisy radicalism. N.S.A. used to be a confederation of student governments that were understood to be little more than exercises in democracy, and had almost no power in molding university policies. Part of the leftward lurch is the result of the 1960 break away of the conservative Young Americans for Freedom, after the N.S.A. took a strong stand for civil rights...
...police told a different story-of a wild 40-block chase at 80 m.p.h. and an apparently drunken driver who stepped on the gas just as the investigating officer reached in the window. Taking the stand in his own behalf, Bova, 23, said that the car "gave a sudden lurch forward. My feet were knocked out from under me. I recall making a grab to get my balance. At this time, my revolver was unintentionally fired...
...conflict between his loyalty to the company he loved and his desire to quit East Germany," he said. "I recall a similar experience. In 1945 I was cut off from my armored outfit behind American lines, and be cause I hated the idea of leaving my outfit in the lurch, crawled back through the lines-even though I knew I could easily have given myself up. Today I know I was an idiot, and Christian may have come to the same realization...
These four performances alone make Ship of Fools an event, but Kramer too often cuts away to supporting players who lurch along the decks and passageways spouting Meaningful Dialogue. The worst lines ("You know how frustrating it is to reach out for something, and then you find it isn't there") entangle Ashley and Segal, whose love life consists mostly of Social Significance. He, a man of the people, sketches the wretched Cuban sugar workers sweltering away in steerage. She, a girl of polish, prefers nice portraits, or maybe landscapes. Their conflict is resolved in bed, where the masses...