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...Lurch that Failed. On the plane manifest he was listed as Lucio Lee, but his real name was Ang Tiv-chok; he had left Amoy, in South China, in 1947, and now was wanted by the Philippines for attempted murder...
...stickup. Do not talk to each other." He ordered them to set a course for Amoy, some 500 miles away. Pilot Captain Pedro Perlas protested that the plane did not have enough fuel. Suddenly he threw the wheel over to the left, hoping that the 45° lurch would knock Ang off his feet. Instead, Ang kept his balance, fired two bullets into Captain Perlas. It was just a moment later that Purser Diago began hammering on the door. Swinging round, Ang fired through the door, and it was then that the passengers first knew something was up. Captain Perlas...
...rich, man-eating tigress who loves him enough to keep him in style and stake him to a nightclub, but who coolly leaves him before he can leave her, is vividly hardboiled. For once, musicomedy plays with people rather than paper dolls, and shows them left in the lurch rather than led to the altar. (Equally raffish on the surface, Guys and Dolls is far more romantic underneath...
Britain's Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison finished his Scandinavian holiday by eating a codfish and champagne lurch with Queen Louise and King
...fact, most of the time Harry Truman appeared to be riding his program no-hands, only putting his head down and beginning to pump when he saw some political advantage. He had given his supporters in Congress almost no help. More than once he had left them in the lurch. But to lay it all on Harry Truman was to overlook the 82nd's own wobblings, digressions and busyness with grubby politics...