Word: crutching
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...federal government is good at breaking your legs, handing you a crutch and then saying, 'see if it wasn't for us you couldn't walk,'" Browne said...
...market. He calls himself "a quant from the University of Chicago," but he insists that the daily contact with the other managers and analysts is what really helps his thinking. He cautions new analysts against relying too much on technology. "I tell them, 'Don't let it become a crutch to eliminate face-to-face contact.' I want them to feel an emotional stake in this process." Like all the managers, Posner faxes his orders to his trader each morning and usually doesn't trade again all day. Eighty percent of his workday is spent on the phone to companies...
Solo shows are a dangerous business. They imply that one individual can carry the stage and the audience, that another actor on stage would be a frivolous waste. Kron rises to the challenge, while cynically admitting, "Maybe I use being a lesbian as a crutch." Not so much a crutch, her sexual orientation becomes, as the stories progress, a gimmick which loses its potency, as does her performance as a whole...
...fact, it was during a lock-out before my third Justice section during which I realized that my stair-phobia had to end immediately. I looked around the empty Sever Quad, and began to crutch up the six main stairs. Mental power and coordination failing about halfway through, I fell forward on my face...
...strain to write something like this--andto keep it true--without using a completely cheesyand/or completely condescending topic as a crutch...