Word: lurch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...actors had less limited styles, then perhaps they could bring it off from beginning to end. The old woman has fine gestures but a redundant voice, while the man has the voice but not the gestures. His idea of old age is to teeter and lurch stiffly, like a poorly-rendered Walter Brennan--stilted and mechanical. The woman acquires a more natural and varied style of movement and sticks to it: it works better. But her grandmotherly, shivering voice begins to drone after a while. Her husband's voice on the other hand, takes on a detached, radio-announcer tone...
...bankrupt line. Few members of Congress are eager to bail out Penn Central, and the Administration opposes such a move. Full nationalization of the line is supported by some labor leaders, but has few fans in either management or Government Unprofitable and unwanted, the line will probably continue to lurch from crisis to crisis until some day, more by default than design, it ends up a ward or U.S. taxpayers...
...lopsided margin in Canadian history. It was the first of four elections in a decade-long political duel between Mike and Dief. Pearson's liberals finally won more seats than Diefenbaker's conservatives in 1963, but for the next five years, Pearson's Cabinet seemed to lurch from one headline-making crisis to another. He survived each potential disaster, largely by leaving his ministers to fight their own battles; meanwhile, he presided over a raft of social legislation intended to create what he called "the Good Society." In 1968 he relinquished the reins of the government...
...realm of economics, where both men consider their differences especially great, voters have a tough time defining the choice with any precision. After months of confusion, contradiction and revision, McGovern has now produced an explicit, detailed tax and spending program. Nixon, while assailing that program as threatening a radical lurch to the left, has made only the most general promises about what he might do in those areas during a second term...
Professionalism was the order of the day. The City of Dorchester (otherwise known as the Mickey Mouse Flagship) and the Canoe Cuy, two full size catamaran-type warships, left all the other contenders in the lurch. The Canoe Cuy was the winner, but two first place awards were made, owing to a dispute about class conflict. The City thought they were in a different class than the Canoe Cuy and didn't paddle as hard as they could, since they were easily beating everyone else...