Word: lame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...band and the long columns of troops swung in review, the dust rose over the parade ground at San Antonio's Fort Sam Houston. The man who took the salute, a lame, lanky, partially deaf General with a strained look about the eyes, was reviewing his last parade as an active officer. He was Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, veteran of 45 years of Army service, and the symbol of both U.S. unpreparedness and victory in the Pacific...
...year ago Old 81st's ruler-straight back began to sag, his legs swelled with arthritis. He got so weak and lame that his handlers, anxious to maintain his invaluable services, adopted a strategy that beefmen rarely use. By artificial insemination, Old 81st got 190 more cows with calf before, wasted by pain, he was finally put to death last week...
...little farm town of Vandalia, Ill. just about doubled its population in one day. Some 4,000 newcomers, almost all of them blind, deaf, lame or incurably ill, were there to be healed. The self-styled healer: William Branham, a bald, narrow-shouldered, shiny-eyed Kentuckian and ex-power company lineman. As each patient walked or was carried past, Branham prayed over him, felt him to see if he vibrated with demons. When the last hallelujahs had died away and the collection had been taken, one young man announced that he had flung away his hearing...
...reasoning of the House seems especially lame in the consumer connection, since it is the proclaimed thesis of the Republican Congress that government intervention to fix prices is a Bad Thing. This rallying cry swept price controls and the housing program before it in recent memory, but apparently price-revision upward at government instigation is considered by the House to be sound tactics in special circumstances...
Suffering from a lame leg last week, Tu could not visit the front as he liked to do. Unhappily, the front was coming to him, anyhow. Nanking was rushing reinforcements to the northern theater by land...