Word: staggering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...broke her neck, 'Geechee cared for her tenderly. But she taught Mrs. Rawlings' other two Negroes to drink. One morning Author Rawlings "awoke to pandemonium." Powerless to move in her steel brace, she heard stove lids hurled, plates smashed, shrieks. Every so often 'Geechee would stagger in to reassure her: "Kate an' Raymond's fightin', but don't you worry." "The bacon done burnt itself up, but don't you fret." "Kate is chasin' Raymond thu the grove with a butcher knife. But you jes' lay still...
...president. But Beech is no chairwarmer, unless the chair is a pilot's seat (he has 15,000 solo hours). So first he married Olive Ann, then he quit Curtiss to organize Beech Aircraft in 1932. His first break came when he startled the industry with his "reverse stagger" biplane (lower wing ahead of upper). Called unairworthy at the time, Beech biplanes are still the only single-engined private craft able to do 250 m.p.h...
...starting Dec. 21. The railroad men shuddered. They anticipated the greatest mail load on record, plus a December holiday civilian load of over two billion passenger-miles, and they did not want 800 million soldier-miles dumped on top of that all at once. They persuaded the QMC to stagger its leaves: men who live near camp can leave Dec. 26, but men living a great distance away get 16 days, and the bulk of this movement will start Dec. 13, before the civilian peak. On that night, solid trainloads of troops will start to highball through the railroad gateways...
With star stagger-back Peter "Ham and" Dammann out with severe internal injures, the undefeated CRIME outfit will meet at Art Hopkins' Club at 3 o'clock to play spin the bottle for the honor of taking over...
...were being shelled throughout our advance and had already been taken when the colonel and C Company moved up. A Company is placed in reserve and we are told to march back to our transport, which is moving up along the road to meet us. We literally stagger along the road. One of my blokes falls, all he can say is, "Water! Water!" and then he passes out and is picked up by ambulance and is taken back. We reach the transport and collapse beneath the trucks which provide the only shade...