Word: staggering
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...night had split open into horror and confusion. Men & women trapped in the cars screamed to be let out. Some managed to crawl through smashed windows and stagger aimlessly into the darkness...
Barring unforeseen journalistic efforts by Harvard Yearbook Publications, Crimson newsboys will be taking a day off Monday. Subscribers may rest assured, however, that the local sheet will be lying outside their doors as they stagger out to exams Tuesday morning and that it will be the real thing...
...spurted again. As his lead widened to 15 yards, friends shouted, "Slow down, Herb! Slow down!" He had stepped the first 440 yards in 48.8 seconds, near-record time, but it was too fast a pace for the 600. With half a lap to go he began to stagger, and Brooklyn's Frank Fox made a bid to pass...
Nobody pretended that the stagger system was anything more than a cure for economic snuffles, seasonal sprain and local dislocations: a real galloping case of economic depression would quickly empty the Massachusetts unemployment fund. Last week the fund was paying out $1,000,000 more than it was taking...
...Lawrence would disagree. Mill-owners were glad to keep their labor force intact; unions had the stagger provision written into contracts. Said Arthur Brown, area director for the C.I.O.'s Textile Workers Union: "It costs the state no more to issue three consecutive compensation checks to three different men than to issue them to the same man. And if they just lay off, not only do the people who are unemployed stop buying, but so do the ones who are employed...