Word: crutching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When a heckler interrupted Scully on a point of order, Scully snarled: "Sit down, you mug!" The heckler kept clamoring. Scully calmly eased himself to within a few feet of him, hoisted up his right crutch and whacked him on the shoulder. That about ended the meeting. The committeemen agreed that they would support the regular Democratic nominees after the state's primary on June 1. But until then, Wallace supporters were free to wreak whatever havoc they could...
Surrealist Salvador Dali, a realist about his worldly goods, called the cops to report that his seaside bungalow at Pebble Beach, Calif. had been ransacked. Missing: several suitcase loads of silver, jewelry, furs. Ignored by the burglars: all of Dali's crutch-&-limp-watch paintings...
...Bureau aim was to help students get along under their own power and not provide the academic crutch that had characterized the tutoring establishments. This philosophy was the basis to the recent change from Bureau of Supervisors to Bureau of Study Counsel. Actual help in specific courses was to be reserved for men whose faulty method of work or poor back ground had retarded them or for students who had missed classes because of illness...
cheek Because McDali's crutch has touched...
...Glass Crutch. In Fairbanks, Alaska, a man on crutches hobbled into Hill's cocktail bar, finished two drinks, walked briskly out the door, leaving the crutches behind...