Word: lurch
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...claim, in the sense that the steady stream of casualties it has inflicted on Israel over the years has left the Israeli electorate overwhelmingly in favor of withdrawing from Lebanon. But while it would have the guerrillas crowing victory, a unilateral Israeli withdrawal would leave Syria in the lurch. "Syria doesn't want Israel out of Lebanon before an agreement on the Golan Heights, because guaranteeing Israeli security there is one of Syria's prime bargaining chips," says MacLeod. "The Israelis may be trying to take advantage of that by threatening unilateral withdrawal, but that could get Barak into trouble...
...stores managed to get the online orders right, there was a 75% chance that the goods wouldn't arrive on time. Toys "R" Us, realizing three days before Christmas that it could not make good on its delivery promises, issued free $100 gift certificates to customers left in the lurch...
...built around her voice-overs, the character is only hazily defined. Rather than attempting to tackle the book's complicated explanation of Sarah's take on her marriage and affair, Jordan chooses not to address the matter at all, leaving the viewer (and the woefully underutilized Moore) in the lurch...
...only girl on the Ravenclaw Quidditch team. "She was shorter than Harry by about a head, and Harry couldn't help noticing, nervous as he was, that she was extremely pretty. She smiled at Harry as the teams faced each other behind their captains, and he felt a slight lurch in the region of his stomach that he didn't think had anything to do with nerves...
...days all the tunnels and shafts had to be dug with pick, shovel and explosives--backbreaking work. Now there are circular drills mounted on caterpillar treads, which lurch forward chewing at the soft rock, making a hellish racket that changes to a shrill glass-crunching scream when the teeth hit a pocket of "potch" (the gray waste near opal that runs in veins through the matrix). These drills are 4 ft. in diameter, and they create vaults in the tunnel roofs--beautiful, arched Romanesque spaces cut in the creamy pink-veined stone. It is troglodyte architecture: dense, theatrical and intensely...