Word: staggering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appeared to be walking duck-footed into the champion's best punches, Oma never seemed to get hurt. In his flailing eagerness to please, Charles inadvertently struck low blows in the fifth and eighth rounds, and the crowd booed him. Even the fouls didn't seem to stagger Oma much. In the tenth round, nonetheless, before the crowd realized that Oma had actually been hurt, Oma came apart. Slack-jawed and befuddled from a final series of lefts & rights to the head, he staggered vacantly around the ring as the referee stopped the fight...
Nature's ill-tempered attack began in a soft and sneaky way with warm rains on the Sierra Nevada Mountains. But rain melted snow, snow fed creek, creek swelled river, and before a husband could stagger upstairs with the best of the furniture, there was swirling water in thousands of parlors in California and Nevada...
...Denmanson correspondence to the Star followed, and brought in hundreds of letters from irate beer drinkers . . . The general pattern had the mythical subscriber writing she had seen a man enter a bar and stagger out after one beer. Each letter ended "Anyone who drinks beer would commit murder. Mr. Denmanson agrees with...
...other day I saw one exhausted L-5 pilot, after eleven straight hours over enemy territory, stagger to his tent and flop on a cot. A moment later his commanding officer shook him and said: "We've got a kid over here shot through the throat. We've got to get him to Taegu. Can you keep awake?" The pilot struggled to his feet and muttered: "Litter case? I'm awake." He walked over to his plane and looked in at an ivory-faced boy with a tube dangling from his throat. The pilot stepped...
...week, with a warning that was wider than Eisenhower's. Addressing the Naval War College at Newport, R.I. 79-year-old Bernard M. Baruch declared: "What has been done so far is inadequate . . . We still have not faced up to what the total peace-waging requires. We still stagger from crisis to crisis, with the initiative left to the enemy. We still treat each country as a separate problem, instead of as part of a unified global strategy." We are "spreading ourselves too thin...