Word: lurch
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...Union tactics. Last year's Union work stoppages were preceeded by weeks of intensive organizing and proselytizing. This Spring's incarnation of the organization roared in from out of nowhere and called an open-ended strike, leaving its doubtful graduate student colleagues and most undergraduates in the lurch...
...bureaucratic ineptitude. The Nixon Administration has not ended the Federal government's commitment to aiding college students in financial need. But by withdrawing support for the present system before completing the arrangements for its replacement, the Administration has opened the possibility that many students will be left in the lurch...
...chase sequence in the movie The French Connection. But as used in a novel like The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, the subway car as dramatic conveyance produces the sinking, shrinking feeling of a subgenre in decline. Once we roared across frontiers on the Orient Express; now we lurch along on a Lexington Avenue local...
...actors had less limited styles, then perhaps they could bring it off from beginning to end. The old woman has fine gestures but a redundant voice, while the man has the voice but not the gestures. His idea of old age is to teeter and lurch stiffly, like a poorly-rendered Walter Brennan--stilted and mechanical. The woman acquires a more natural and varied style of movement and sticks to it: it works better. But her grandmotherly, shivering voice begins to drone after a while. Her husband's voice on the other hand, takes on a detached, radio-announcer tone...
...bankrupt line. Few members of Congress are eager to bail out Penn Central, and the Administration opposes such a move. Full nationalization of the line is supported by some labor leaders, but has few fans in either management or Government Unprofitable and unwanted, the line will probably continue to lurch from crisis to crisis until some day, more by default than design, it ends up a ward or U.S. taxpayers...