Word: lurches
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...With a lurch of motion sickness, Mulhern thinks, not for the first time, What a great place to make money...
...impassive as chaos explodes around him either at work (a gambler puts a pistol to his forehead) or at home (the kids attack each other while the croupier rakes in a plate from across the dinner table). His fascination with wordplay paraded itself in his oddments of fictional language: "lurch," "gog" (what is a gog?), be-"fuddle." Within a year he had added a byline that would stick for 60 years and more: Seuss...
...demise of former Vermont Governor Dean’s campaign—which Dean made official in a concession speech Wednesday—has left thousands of college-age staffers, volunteers, and supporters in the lurch. Harvard students are no exception...
...outnumber Prada slides--is becoming less frightened. In part because Shepard was attacked here, and in part because of its live-and-let-live ideal, Wyoming has even become something of a national laboratory in which gays and straights are learning--ever haltingly, now a step forward, now a lurch back--to live together...
There is a model for this kind of intentionally unpolished candidacy, and his name is John McCain. Like McCain's, Dean's "straight" talk can lurch from anger to humor, from conviction to waffle, in quick succession. Consider this flitter and flutter from Meet the Press in June: "I really don't like the idea of a federal balanced-budget amendment, but I am very tempted ... You might just have to do it. [But] I hate to do it because we didn't have to do it in Vermont ..." So which is it? But also consider this rocket he hurled...