Word: lurched
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, an empty touring car lounged against a Broadway curb. A man stepped on the running-board but did not approach the controls. Pedestrians gaped to hear the chauffeurless machine start its motor, shift into gear, lurch away from the curb into thick traffic. Down Broadway it went, looping uncertainly back and forth across the street. It missed a cowering milkwagon, blew its horn, dodged a speeding fire-engine. Motorcycle police escorted the vagrant down Fifth Avenue, where a particularly wild lurch brought the man on the running-board to the steering wheel, not in time, however, to avoid...
...Manhattan, a young woman was crossing a street, right foot, left foot, across asphalt sticky with heat. Turned a traffic signal, charged down on her two lines of motors. Alarmed, she stood still. Her heels sank into the tar, were held fast. She gave a lurch. Her foot came from her slipper. She put her steaming foot back into her slipper, wrenched once more, and once more it slipped out, causing her to lose her balance, plunge her foot into the tar which gripped her stocking as she wrestled, dragged it half off. For a moment she balanced, storklike...
Everything was going very nicely when the boat took a sudden lurch to Coach Stevens' side and the sharp sound of his broken oar was heard...
Cornell's high-powered, underslung applecart had, up to last week, trundled through three seasons and two games without lurching. Then along came Williams-in particular Left End Ide of Williams. The Big Red applecart took a lurch, a swerve, a jolt on the thank-you-ma'm, and lumbered off the road 7 to 14. Ide, scion of Troy, N. Y., collar-makers, scored both Williams' touchdowns, one by whisking up a fumble, one by fastening on a pass. Cornell, fast and brawny, fumbled five times; Williams, fast and brainy, worked smoothly...
...Belgian note is written in much the same style as the French. The British proposals are left in the lurch. The Belgian Government suggests a new Reparations program with new German guarantees. To the British Government these suggestions, while practicable, would lead only to further procrastination, whereas the constituent feature of the British note was " immediate action " to save Germany from imminent financial, economic, geographical and social disruption...