Word: crutches
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...childhood reminiscences, the book suggests less how Dylan Thomas made a poem than how he made a living. But even as he fell back on lecturing for money to radio listeners and the matronly bands of U.S. "culture-vultures," as he called them, Poet Thomas whirled his economic crutch like a pinwheel. These pieces testify to his roving eye, roguish humor and beery vision of the human condition. He can draw a third-person self-portrait as accurately as a brilliant cartoonist or observant cop: "He's five foot six and a half. Thick blubber lips; snub nose; curly...
...times when baby is "off his feed," Dr. Lawson saw nothing to worry about in most cases: "The prescription of tonics and elaborate vitamin mixtures serves only as a crutch and evades the real issue. Usually, these incidents reflect the mother's anxiety more than anything wrong with the child...
Chancellor Adenauer's well-laid plans for German rearmament also began to go awry. Outside the locked iron gates of Augsburg's Rosenau Stadium last week milled an overflow crowd of some 2,000 men-crutch-borne veterans and draftage youngsters. Derisively they barked the familiar German parade ground orders: Achtung. Vorwarts marsch. Rechts urn, links urn, rechts um." Inside the stadium restaurant, another 1,000 jammed crutch-littered tables, guzzling beer from massive mugs and laughing at the youngsters who mock goose-stepped around in paper hats...
...tried to have the collection printed, no major publisher was willing to assume the risk of the book selling. Finally, the University reluctantly guaranteed a small printer it would cover all costs if 2500 copies were not sold. The books, containing the talks by Arnold Toynbee Joseph Wood Crutch, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnam, and others, were thus finally printed and now have sold 25,000 copies. The Voice of America liked these same talks so much that it adopted them to be beamed behind the Iron Curtain...
Work for Worth. All this, to Secretary McKay, is too much. "Once we make a crutch of the Government," he believes, "we are on our way to becoming political cripples." He wants-at the right time and on the right terms-independence for the Indians, statehood for Alaska and Hawaii, private initiative on electric power and more private ownership of public lands...