Word: lurchings
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...runway at 80 m.p.h., then eased on the brakes to test the 95-ton plane's ground response. After the first ground run, Tex gave his opinion: "A lovely ship." But Tex spoke too soon. Taxiing slowly after the fourth high-speed run, Johnson felt a shuddering lurch. Supports of the plane's left main landing gear buckled, ripped backward and up through the wing root. Boeing's bright hope sagged over on her left wing and lay there like a broken bird...
Pondering. He would lurch back into court and lie with his head down until he decided that it was his turn to talk. "I'll remain in prison until I die," he vowed. "If anyone tries to release me, I'll find a way to commit suicide." "Now, now," soothed the court president. "You're not going to die. Please, just try to talk about the jurisdiction of this court." His lawyer also tried to get him to talk on the issue. Mossadegh screamed: "You're the son of a burnt father...
...only to be followed by a trio of hillbilly hags who bring the dreamer down to earth. In Gold Rush (from Paint Your Wagon), the girl dancers, cast as lighthearted trollops, swirl happily into a mining town and pair off with the men-only to be left in the lurch when the lode runs out. In Short Lecture and Demonstration on the Evolution...
...slim, brown-haired fellow named Jim Meuler, headed off the road and stopped. At that moment Thomson reached behind the seat, picked up a length of iron pipe, and hit his companion a crashing blow on the back of the skull. Meuler jerked the door open and managed to lurch out, dazed, bleeding and incredulous. Thomson was his closest friend...
...Stewart, only that they were "most anxious to trace him." It was not hard. Soon afterward he checked into Rome's Hotel Excelsior as Horace Albert Hall. He stayed only long enough (a week) to woo and win a pretty young Italian widow, then left her in the lurch and sped...