Word: lurch
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...built the chain from nothing to 1,600 stores and $1.8 billion in revenue in just 10 years, but consumers were growing tired of folksy fare like Juniper Breeze shampoo gift baskets and were starting to find palatable alternatives in drugstores and discount chains, which had begun an upscale lurch of their own. Fiske came in, began renovating stores from pine-grove country to white-walled mod (a few hundred stores left to go) and started introducing more-expensive products that didn't carry the Bath & Body Works logo. Same-store sales rebounded, and last year the chain neared...
...College was supposed to have completed renovating all of the house dining halls by last summer. Mather got left in the lurch. As a consolation, we were given a biweekly “culinary display,” featuring some sort of special dish like risotto. Once the promised renovations were set to begin, these displays shut down...
When the plane hit Elia Zedeno's building on 9/11, the effect was not subtle. From the 73rd floor of Tower 1, she heard a booming explosion and felt the building actually lurch to the south, as if it might topple. It had never done that before, even in 1993 when a bomb exploded in the basement, trapping her in an elevator. This time, Zedeo grabbed her desk and held on, lifting her feet off the floor. Then she shouted, "What's happening?" You might expect that her next instinct was to flee. But she had the opposite reaction...
Baker’s bow oar smacked an idle goose in the Schuylkill River just before the finish line. The move both startled the goose and the Crimson boat, which experienced a significant lurch shortly after contact...
...HEXAPOD. A six-legged manned vehicle that resembles a cross between a giant grasshopper and an Erector Set horse. Planned for use over hilly, rocky or swampy areas that would bog down jeeps and tanks, the l0-ft.-tall Hexapod is designed to lurch along at up to 8 m.p.h. by taking 9-ft. steps. Clint Kelly III, director of DARPA's Office of Engineering Application, calls the gawky-looking device the most technologically advanced off-road vehicle ever constructed...