Word: crutching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cheek, they demanded their prepaid bonus immediately, for a war into which they would not drag the U.S. The Chicago University chapter offered the slogan: "We'll make the world safe for hypocrisy." In a parade up Broadway, V.F.W.s carried death's-heads, the drum major a crutch. The campaign landed the V.F.W. on the nation's front pages. The U.S. that had made Merchants of Death a best-seller cheered; veterans of World War I jeered. Exploded James E. Van Zandt, national commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (and now a Congressman from Pennsylvania): "They...
...fetishistic crutches featured in so many Dali paintings may be traced to a crutch which he found in the attic of a tower from which he had planned to push a girl. Says Dali: "It was the first time in my life that I saw a crutch. . . . The superb crutch! Already it appeared to me as the object possessing the height of authority and solemnity. [It] communicated to me an assurance, an arrogance even, which I had never been capable of until then...
...allows the patient to walk gently on his broken leg in about two weeks; to put his whole weight on it, without cane or crutch, in three weeks. > Thus it prevents the muscular atrophy and stiffening of the joints which commonly result from a plaster cast...
Contractor Lawrence Wood ("Chip") Robert Jr., ex-New Deal favorite, appeared in Atlanta with a black eye. To curious friends he handed a printed card: "... I was helping an old crippled lady . . . when her crutch slipped . . . and hit me in the eye. If you don't believe this, ask Evie [his wife], she doesn't either...
...their director, Stanley Salmen, "have striven earnestly to improve the services which they provide for those undergraduates who have a ligitimate need for help," Dean Hanford said. "It has been their aim to offer advice and help of a constructive and permanent nature rather than to provide a crutch or 'litter' to support the student temporarily...