Word: lurch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rookie politician quit the presidential race and left his supporters in the lurch...
...least five years to settle fully into their role. Many have found their positions shifting during that transitional period: Nixon appointee Harry Blackmun, for example, drifted to the liberal end of the court, while Byron White, a Kennedy appointee, moved the other way. Don't look for any such lurch from Thomas. "My impression is that Thomas arrived on the court knowing where he belonged," says University of Virginia law professor A.E. Dick Howard...
Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk tried to slow the movement, warning that "there can be no guarantee that events in the Crimea will not lurch out of control and that human blood will not be spilled." But the Crimean parliament ignored him and last month passed a resolution calling for a referendum on independence. The response from Kiev was swift: the Ukrainian parliament declared the Crimean resolution unconstitutional, and government officials hinted that the Crimean legislature might be dissolved and direct rule from Kiev imposed...
...implication of this and other statements by pro-life feminists is that the circumstances which cause women to have abortions are precipitated by women's oppression by men. Because men often wish to avoid the responsibility which fatherhood requires, they leave women in the lurch. Mothers are thus persuaded by their desperate situations to abort children they would much rather bring to term...
Besides, even if it were possible to reimpose totalitarianism, no one is under any illusion that it would solve the country's economic problems. Quite the contrary, a severe lurch to the right would lead to another cold war in the Soviet Union's relations with the West, and that would mean even less foreign trade and investment...