Word: lame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact, 147 House members, 66 Senators had already gone; eleven Republicans who had loudly insisted the Congress must stay in session to guard the nation from anything & everything have been junketing on Caribbean waters; occasional sessions of both chambers, attended by a scant 50 or so members, heard mostly lame-duck quacking. In the House, labor-baiting, gimlet-eyed Clare Hoffman of Allegan, Mich, and Lame-Duck Ralph Church of Evanston, Ill. still objected to technical adjournment. They had their...
...most glaring loophole in the Harvard Department of Economics is in the field of labor and social reform. The field is represented by exactly one and one-half courses: 81 (Labor) and 11b (Socialism). Since the dismissal of progressive Ray Walsh in 1936, 81 has been the lame duck of the Department; until this year it was so hopelessly bound up in generalities as to leave the C.I.O. entirely unmentioned. Ec 11b is--partly by nature of its material--the only course which lays sufficient emphasis on the dynamic aspect of economics...
Fascist propagandists have insisted that their Greek debacle was caused by the perfidy of Albania and Albion, by "bad luck" (early rains) and by Greek treach ery in being all mobilized and ready in numbers far greater than Italy could get to the front.* The last part of this lame story is obviously untrue, but it may be that behind the beard of many an "Al banian" who incited his comrades' sur render or rebellion grinned the sly face of a British Intelligence operative. But the fact remains that Italy threw into the fight, at the outset, ten full...
With Japan's tacit acquiescence Thailand began whittling at French Indo-China from another direction. On the lame charge that French bombing planes had tried to raid Siamese towns, Thailand warned all French residents to leave the Cambodian border area, started a series of air raids against Cambodia, occupied three border districts. Nationalist organizations, clamoring for the return of Thailand's lost province, hailed "the beginning...
April 1917. Labor's Arthur Greenwood did the Government no good in a lame reply that was more a confession than a defense. "It is folly to deny that damage has been done to production," said he, "but I say unhesitatingly that it hasn't eaten to any extent into our productive capacity. It has embarrassed us and will continue to embarrass us." As to shipping losses: "It is true that this is a position much like that of April 1917." April 1917 was the month the U. S. entered World War I and saved Britain from going...