Word: lurchings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...room, built-in nurseries, movie theaters, lounge cars with Astra Domes, and trim hostesses. Were these wonders for him, or just for the cross-the-country glamor trade? Would he still have to stand in line 20 minutes or more for a seat in the diner? Would trains still lurch like a wounded moose on jolting roadbeds? Perhaps what the passenger really wanted was less fluorescent and chromium luxury and more plain, old-fashioned convenience and comfort...
...charged not only with building the framework of European cooperation but with allocations of U.S. help among themselves. If they had shown themselves unable to cope with the problem, the Marshall Plan would have bean in extremely grave peril. In Paris last week, with a sort of corrective lurch like that of a man who slips and regains his balance on an icy sidewalk, the negotiators reached agreement on allocations...
...beset by all sorts of worries from beginning to end. She has no money to pay for the rent, so the captain dictates the story of his life to her, which she has published under the appropriate title of "Blood and Swash." Another time she is left in the lurch in timehonored tradition by a smooth apple of a cad. played with spirit by George Sanders. The Tierney trips through all her troubles unobtrusively enough, mouthing her dialogue in a soft, damp voice, while Rex Harrison, rough, bluff, and sentimental, steals the show as a happy inhabitant of the happy...
There are millions of people in Holland, and other countries of Europe, determined not to leave their country in the lurch in difficult postwar times, working harder than ever, and absolutely convinced that their children will find a good future there, if they too want to express their love for their country in hard work. So do not worry that we all want to join your "paradise" over there. Personally, reading about the life in the States in TIME, I am every week more and more glad to live in Holland...
...long legs spread far apart, Hartung waited menacingly. The first pitch was down the groove. With a huge stride and a loose-jointed lurch, he swung-and connected. The ball arched up and disappeared over a 30-foot fence, 370 feet away...