Word: lurchings
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There are moments in American life when events lurch out of context, when the public is hurtled from dim awareness of a seemingly trivial news item into a maelstrom of moral reappraisal. That appears to be happening in the affair that the Washington press corps has predictably dubbed "Debategate...
...Jenkins put it more starkly. Five more years of Thatcher "still cocooned in her own self-righteousness," he warned, would divide the country. "The revulsion would be such that the result would be a return, in the late 1980s, of a still more extreme Labor Party. We would lurch from Reagan's America to Jaruzelski's Poland...
...sheathed in black, his ready-for-anything Cagney stance, the pouty lower lip that all chansonniers are issued at birth. Ever the actor as singer, he will poke or sculpt the air to give physical shape to a lyric; at the end of a song he may waltz or lurch into the wings. Mostly he stands at center stage and sing-talks one of the more than 1,000 ballads he has written. These are songs of subterranean emotions, of dreams and fears and guilty secrets. The best of them are stethoscopes detecting sounds often unheard: the diminished pulse beat...
...Secret War of Harry Frigg (1968): A lurch at comedy. I didn't accomplish it very well...
...continent, including more than 1,000 miles of previously uncharted icecap, by snowmobile in a record 66 days. After reaching the South Pole, the team ascended and descended the 9,750-ft. Scott Glacier. Said Burton: "Nobody who wasn't there, who has not felt the deadly lurch of snow giving way, hasn't seen the endless white or blue telltale shadows of a major crevasse field and been forced to continue going through more for hour after hour, can imagine the sweaty apprehension we experienced for those three days...