Word: lurchings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bulkheads of timber and concrete were set in place to divide the ship into compartments, permitting the use of controlled pumping. The plan was to roll the vessel upright, resting on the port bilge keel. By pumping and flooding, movement could be controlled and slowed to prevent a sudden lurch when the ship broke free...
...tanks, light artillery and motorized infantry drew abreast of his rear guard. They moved fast and stealthily. Near Wadi Matratin the British sliced in and cut off this Axis tail. Most of the isolated troops were part of a German Panzer division. Mussolini's warriors, left in the lurch at El Alamein, were in the forefront of this latest retreat and far along the coast. In a three-day-long battle some of the Germans succeeded in fighting their way through and tying themselves on again to the main columns. The British catch was not large but it showed...
When the final lurch came and Vag stepped down from the train he heard the feminine hum before he saw what it came from. Watching his step as he climbed down, he pictured Smith, lined up, waiting. When he looked up he saw they were WAVES. Blue coats and white hats and all the same. They all pushed and surged past him, getting into the train, and he looked for his date. A healthy-looking blonde pushed through the blue waves and he said hello, tripping over one of the sailorettes on the way. Then they walked uptown...
Dartmouth's great cross country team again proved too much for the Crimson last Saturday at the Heptagonals in New York, but Coach Mikkola's runners left six teams in the lurch as they placed third, only two points behind, second place Cornell...
...improvisation, and backward Chinese coolies who did not even know the rudiments of Chinese kite-flying worked at patching plane and field. At the first streaks of grey the DC-2½, with one wing five feet longer than the other, roared down the field, took off with a lurch...