Word: lurch
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Cornell's high-powered, underslung applecart had, up to last week, trundled through three seasons and two games without lurching. Then along came Williams-in particular Left End Ide of Williams. The Big Red applecart took a lurch, a swerve, a jolt on the thank-you-ma'm, and lumbered off the road 7 to 14. Ide, scion of Troy, N. Y., collar-makers, scored both Williams' touchdowns, one by whisking up a fumble, one by fastening on a pass. Cornell, fast and brawny, fumbled five times; Williams, fast and brainy, worked smoothly...
...Belgian note is written in much the same style as the French. The British proposals are left in the lurch. The Belgian Government suggests a new Reparations program with new German guarantees. To the British Government these suggestions, while practicable, would lead only to further procrastination, whereas the constituent feature of the British note was " immediate action " to save Germany from imminent financial, economic, geographical and social disruption...
Lord Robert Cecil: "In the first of a series of articles written about my American tour, I declared that at Versailles President Wilson was not only faced by the inevitable hostility of the French, but was left in the lurch by the British delegates...
...stonecutter's wharf at a stroke of 22 or 23 to the minute. The form of the crew was an improvement over their work on Tuesday, but the port side caught the water sooner than the starboard and the port men being more powerful the boat gave a vicious lurch to starboard every stroke. Yesterday the crew rowed up as far as the Brighton abattoir; Tilton rowing 6 and Watriss stroke. The disparity between the sides was diminished but the rowing was very rough. The faults are too numerous to mention; some of them are as follows: stroke hunches...
...opposing theories flourished their steels simultaneously and by mutual agreement. Mr. Mills tersely, and with sledge-hammer vigor, answers Mr. Blaine, arguing that protection leads to countless other ills besides the accumulation of wealth in the hands of the few. Great Britain has left us sadly in the lurch, he says, with her free trade. She has swept our vessels from the seas and is now carrying not only her own products to markets, but a large share of those of other countries...