Word: lurchings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Their dash made them look more like drunks in a conga line. In the thin air, no one could lurch more than 15 steps without rest. The final 400 ft. were up a near-vertical snow wall; somehow they made it, and there was the slender bamboo pole that had been planted on the summit in 1947 by Bradford Washburn, a mountain-climbing geographer. Three men burst into tears. "Do you realize," gasped Buckingham, "do you realize what we've done? Four hackers-we've made a great ascent, maybe the greatest outside of South America...
...years later Hoosman landed a leading role in a German movie called Toxi-and the part set him to thinking. Says he: "I played a Negro G.I. who regrets having left his girl friend in the lurch, and comes back to Germany to get his baby." It led him to try organizing boxing benefits for G.I. Negro children; but he got little help from the U.S. Army, which was not anxious to call dramatic attention to its illegitimacy problem. Last year, impelled by the fact that the great majority of Negro-fathered children are now approaching the school-leaving...
...young man look the lout he is, and draws beautiful pictures of what his and daughter's life in the Aegean could be. First she thinks he's kidding, then she takes him up on it and they leave, leaving the groom and the ex-wife in the lurch and feeling bad. The daughter says she will come back "a fulfilled woman...
...finished 13½ games behind Brooklyn. Last year the love affair between Milwaukee and its ballplayers really wore thin. After exciting the fans all season with the promise of a pennant, they backed down again in the last week of the season and left their town in the lurch, one game behind Brooklyn...
...Representatives accept the watered-down civil rights bill passed by the Senate? Joe Martin was all for shelving the bill in hopes of getting a better one in Election Year, 1958. But Martin and like-minded Republicans were fighting a lonely battle. They had been left in the lurch by such organizations as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Americans for Democratic Action and the A.F.L.-C.I.O., all of which, after years of making 100% civil rights an article of faith, were now willing to settle for less. Editorialists and cartoonists who only a few weeks...