Word: lurchings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like the turtle, the bureaucrat, hunched up within the comfortable armor plate of civil-service regulations, seldom moves at a pace faster than a lumbering lurch. But head, neck and unwinking eye can zip out with wondrous speed-to snap at a taxpayer, look out a window at a parade, or sip a slow cup of coffee at the nearest Government cafeteria. Last week the Senate heard another little-noted fact about his living habits: he can, and frequently does, enjoy the equivalent of about ten weeks of paid vacation a year...
...Iron Curtain) had given Gubichev a chance to go scot-free, he didn't jump at it. Obviously he had to wait while the Kremlin made up his mind for him. His attorney went ahead with plans for appeal-just in case his bosses left him in the lurch. But they didn't. After four days, Gubichev got his orders: he would be shipped out on the Polish liner Batory, the useful Communist vessel which had once carried off ex-Communist Spy Gerhart Eisler as a stowaway...
...side; they forgot the loose doors on the other side. It was from this side that Karpe had fallen. Then, by coincidence, the train's lights had not gone on as usual in the tunnel. By coincidence, said train officials, it was possible that the Arlberg's lurch, as it rounded a curve toward the tunnel's end, had swung open an unfastened door and that Karpe had plunged through it in the dark...