Word: lame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...music by Soviet Composer Dmitri Shostakovich)-were composed during the Spanish War. Most of them are in rough, plodding march time. The one which gives the album its name was composed by a German, Eberhard Schmitt, in the camp at Gurs. Its chorus, translated (not quite so lame in the original...
...rough slabs of limestone. Under them, the ebony coffin in which the conqueror lay in robes " of gold brocade. Except for the head, the skeleton was well-preserved in musk and rose water, and the scientists discovered that philology was right (Tamerlane comes from Timur Leuk, meaning Timur the Lame) : his right leg was shorter than his left. With him were buried two sons and his astronomer grandson, Ulugh...
...Lanky, lame, cranky, 65-year-old Charles Grey Grey,* editor for 28 years of Britain's top aviation magazine, The Aeroplane, last week brought down the wrath of Britons on himself for no more heinous crime than writing rudely about the U.S. When Editor Grey has not been rumpusing with the British Air Ministry, he has injected into his technical publication noisy U.S.-baiting ("the civilized world and the United States of America"). Sometimes he has combined the two. In 1938, when the British bought 400 U.S. planes, Editor Grey called it "a disgraceful deal," yammered that "to order...
...Courts there is a constant babel of dissatisfied litigants. In five minutes on any street one may see an Armenian fighting with a Hindu; an Abyssinian woman with her simian face smeared with rancid butter to keep vermin away; an old bishop who knew the strange, sad, lame poet-adventurer Rimbaud, France's Byron, when he lived in Harar; a beautiful, brown-skinned, high-breasted Harari woman carrying a load of wood on her head as if it were a tiara ; a big black with a lion cub on a leash; an Abyssinian policeman who looks ferocious with leaves...
...Colleges in the snow belt staged intercollegiate snowshoe meets. The Appalachian Club promoted mountain-climbing on snowshoes. Cross-country races, hundred-yard dashes and hurdle races were the nucleus of every winter carnival, and many a web-footed sportsman went home with a severe case of mal de raquette (lame ankles...