Word: invalides
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Hirohito stepped stiffly from his car at the Showa Electrical Co. plant near Yokohama. Past officials and workers standing at attention with Sunday smiles, he pattered like a not-quite-recuperated invalid treading on eggshells. While functionaries droned through tedious reports, Hirohito clasped and unclasped his hands, shifted from foot to foot, blinked and nodded. When it was all over, he sighed, "Ah so." Then His Majesty wandered like a scared mouse through the maze of plant wreckage. Before one of the workers, lined up to get their first imperial glimpse, he paused nervously. "How long have you been working...
Pittsburgh was almost an invalid for 19½ hours while Duquesne Light Co. workers stayed off the job. Even though the company managed to produce power at 50% of normal volume, street cars stopped, street lights went out, office buildings closed for fear elevators might go out of control, and residential districts were blacked out in rotation. Mayor David Lawrence took to the radio, announced: "This is a disaster." It might have been much worse-if power had failed completely, the city's milk and water supply would have been cut off, and refrigerators and oil burners would have...
...long run, the brittle Black Hawks didn't have as much chance for survival as the fourth-place Boston Bruins. But the Bruins had their own invalid problems with hotheaded Milt Schmidt (groin injury) and shrewd Bill Cowley (broken hand...
Pointless. In Newark, 125,000 red ration points were stolen the night before all red points were declared invalid...
Prince Jorn bravely attacked a terrible knight in black armor, who turned out to be an invalid gaffer, dressed up. Then he gathered the one thousand precious cherries he had picked from the orchard of the fearful Mok-Mok, who was stuffed, and had birds' nests in his eyes...