Word: lurch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This is the sort of pretentiousness one might expect from a New York Giants fan, which 44-year-old Roger Kahn could well have been if he had grown up on Manhattan's Upper West Side instead of a trolley lurch from Ebbets Field. But to Kahn, who covered the Dodgers for the New York Herald Tribune in the early '50s, baseball wasn't just baseball. It was-well -transpontine. Between Kahn and the game flowed the mainstream of American experience. On his side was a Jewish family life in which culture was spelled with a capital...
...monstrous work is seized by chanting ecologists, the unrepentant book lover will wheel his barrow to the store and bring home a copy. One reason for doing so is that it contains not one scrap of information that is essential, or even useful, to civilization's forward lurch...
...lesson of the worst postwar money crisis is that the non-Communist world is running out of time in which to repair its financial system. The speculative explosion that tore through the banks and bourses two weeks ago demonstrated that permitting the system to lurch from one upheaval to another is no longer a workable policy. The world's financial and political leaders have two choices. They can unite on basic updating and reform of the rules that have promoted the free exchange of goods, tourists and money across national borders. Or they can retreat to competing nationalistic policies...
...responsible. Calley, who is well aware that he was his own best witness at the trial, considers himself by now an expert on the horrors of war. He has said that he would some day like to make a combat movie so realistic and grotesque that the audience would lurch from the theater and vomit on the sidewalk outside. For many, the My Lai testimony has long since made such an enterprise unnecessary...
...over a century later, with a continent conquered, plundered, and replundered, Americans continue to lurch fitfully through the confines of their pitifully lengthened lives. We no longer smile. Our institutional jesters fail to amuse us. When the President invades and bombs Cambodia we greet the announcement with a nervous giggle and call it an "incursion." And the women come and go, of course, talking of our recent "entry into Cambodia...