Word: lurchingly
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Trip 21 gave a lurch. Behind her in the rain swirled the twigs of a tall poplar. The cabin lights went out. She hurtled through spiked pines, bursting her guts horribly, flumped to the ground. There she roared at death and lay still. Then from her twisted frame, from the red Georgia earth where they had been thrown, her survivors began to shout, first to each other, then for help...
...snow. He flew blind; the snow had blotted out everything, and he had only his instruments to guide him. Wind mocked and rocked the great plane, smashed the cabin's windows. Spare parts spewed like hail through the cabin. A dreadful paralysis seized the plane; after each lurch, each drop in the wind, it seemed to recover a little more slowly, to climb a little less powerfully. Lieut. Han son knew why : ice was forming on the wings, and ice could drag him down to the land, where death was. He ordered his five non-commissioned men to bail...
...neighborly relations." The whole Nazi press echoed the Berliner Börsen-Zeitung's charge: "It was Britain who first made the Baltic countries, especially Finland, strategically interesting to Russia by introducing foreign tensions. . . . Never trust the British-when things get critical they leave you in the lurch...
Greatest enigma of Europe this week is precisely the question: Who will leave whom in the lurch? In the chancelleries of Europe and especially in Paris it was beginning to be said: "More and more the war seems unlikely to be fought on the Western Front, and sooner or later...
...flopped to & fro on its neck.] I bought babies' toys for him but when I held them out he couldn't grasp them. He lay there like a-like a lump of pudding." Jerry grew large rapidly, too rapidly. He never learned to walk alone, could only lurch, spin and sprawl. Almost nothing coordinated. He had to be helped with the simplest functions. When he was put in institutions, he pined for his family. He was subject to fits. Caring for him ceaselessly at home exhausted the parents' health as well as their money...