Word: lame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crusades he pursued in his frontpage days. He aided Republican Senator John Williams in gathering material for the Senator's charge last week against the Johnson Administration. Friends of L.B.J., said Williams, got $2,000,000 worth of federal land in Austin almost as a gift from lame duck Johnson officials...
Verging on Hysteria. The essays' editors charge that the reformers fatally gear their standards to "the unlucky, the ungifted, the indolent or the otherwise lame." This shrill voice is echoed in every essay. Tory M.P. Angus Maud writes: "We must reject the chimera of equality and proclaim the ideal of quality." Novelist Kingsley Amis encapsulates mass education with the slogan, "more means worse," and blames student unrest at universities on the presence of the academically unfit. Psychologist Sir Cyril Burt offers statistics purporting to prove that skills in reading, spelling and arithmetic have dropped in the past 55 years...
Earlier the three year old colts had promised an exciting season. The undefeated Drone went lame on the eve of the Florida Derby. The undefeated Viceregal went lame during a Derby prep in Kentucky. Top Knight was victimized by sore hooves and is turned out to pasture. After Majestic Prince proved to everyone's satisfaction that he could not go a mile and a half, he went sore and ad to be fired...
...quotes it frequently, and other schoolboys do too. He and others remember some of your other words. What you said about God, for example: 'I cannot believe that God would choose to play dice with the world. Nature is subtle, but never malevolent. Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind...
...intelligent reader, that lame dog who often feels the need for help over styles, will find many familiar Lowell mannerisms. Among them: the dazzling fast shuffle of historical cards from different decks, imperial Rome, Emerson's Boston, Wren's London. There are, as always, several Lowells: Lowell the improper Bostonian, the politically engaged, the scholar, traveler and eclectic New England importer of foreign cultures. Lowell the poet has not only the chameleon's ability to change the color of his verse to fit the subject but that wizard lizard's faculty of independently focusing each...