Word: lurch
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...machine has two safety features that I particularly appreciate. You need a key to start it, which is good when you have so many curious underage testers around. And you need to engage the hand brake before you can activate the throttle, which makes it almost impossible to lurch forward inadvertently. Also, the throttle is variable speed, which makes it useful for slow cruising among pedestrians. Indeed, I could see driving this thing to work at the Time & Life Building and taking it up the elevator and plugging it into an office outlet for a recharge. I could...
...York Democrats are worried that they may be left in the lurch if HILLARY CLINTON ends up deciding not to seek the Senate seat from their state next year. One possible contender had been ANDREW CUOMO, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, who thought about running but then announced he wouldn't in order to spend time helping AL GORE get elected President. Now there are hopes that he may reconsider and get in the race if Hillary decides not to. His father MARIO CUOMO was disappointed by his initial decision, and has let his feelings be known...
...York Democrats are worried that they may be left in the lurch if Hillary Clinton ends up deciding not to seek the Senate seat from their state next year. One possible contender had been Andrew Cuomo, the secretary of housing and urban development, who thought about running but then announced he wouldn?t in order to spend time helping Al Gore get elected president. Now there are hopes that he may reconsider and get in the race if Hillary decides not to. His father, Mario Cuomo, was disappointed by his initial decision, and has let his feelings be known...
...back-to-the-landers and civil defense buffs left in the lurch by the end of the cold war, Y2K is a reaffirmation, a renaissance. Ten years ago, before the Soviet army sold off its watches and medals to U.S. novelty shops, Christopher Rudy set out from Ohio for Montana in an old school bus loaded with provisions. Like hundreds of other members of the Church Universal and Triumphant, a New Age sect based in Corwin Springs, Rudy had been called on to prepare for an unspecified Armageddon. It never came, but the scores of underground shelters dug in anticipation...
...There's a lurch as you move from enjoying it to selling it," he said...