Word: lame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stimson and Knox in a Democratic Cabinet, the opportunity disappeared in the feverish political atmosphere of Convention Week. Senatorial debate grew bitter, reached a new low in wild charges and venomous insinuations, punctuated with cries of warmongering from Isolationists, and virtual accusations of treason from West Virginia's lame-duck Rush Holt. Both the Naval Affairs Cormmittee and the Committee on Military Affairs decided to hold public hearings, quiz Republicans Knox and Stimson after the Convention recess...
...started out for Bordeaux, heading straight into a combat zone without the necessary guarantee of safe conduct from belligerents. Before Congress was an Administration proposal to exempt Red Cross vessels from the Neutrality Act; otherwise the McKeesport might have to be ordered back. Cried West Virginia's lame-duck Senator Rush Holt: "This resolution of authority might be the spark. ..." Nevertheless, the resolution passed...
Textiles. For its growing family of soldiers, the U. S. Army began buying fabrics for uniforms. Lame old American Woolen Co. and other smaller weavers got orders for some 13,000,000 yd. of serge, overcoatings, shirtings, odds & ends. Cotton mills got orders for 930,000 yd. of khaki cotton cloth. Also placed were orders for 176,350 yd. of "army cottons by Treasury Procurement Chief Donald Marr Nelson (lately of Sears, Roebuck), past master in dealing with hundreds of small-time textile companies. Expectation was that Don Nelson might soon be doing more buying for both Army & Navy...
Francis Ellery is what Tennyson (describing himself and a whole species) once called a Second-Rate Sensitive Mind. As a New England, church-school and Harvard-educated author, Ellery, a poor young man, hires himself out to tutor and take care of twelve-year-old Walter Cunningham, who is lame but game and liable to seizures of asthma. Ellery's harder job is to satisfy Walter's mother of his absolute trustworthiness and interest in Walter. It isn't so bad as long as they are stranded in Switzerland, but when they move to southern France, within...
Last week, while Mr. Fair was at work, his bungalow burned down. Mrs. Fair, lame, got out with only her life and the lamp. To the Fairs, those were the most important things. Declared Mrs. Fair...