Word: lamed
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...African bush, notes Morrow, is an "unforgiving place. The lame and the careless are taken down quickly." Morrow learned the cautious local custom: while walking in the bush, warn the animals of your approach; it is when they are surprised that they tend to attack. When out alone, Morrow took to bellowing old Irish songs to alert whichever beasts might be lurking nearby. One day he headed out for some fishing in the Aberdare Mountains. "I went down the game trail to a trout stream with my fly rod in hand, singing like the Clancy Brothers," recalls Morrow...
...velvet stage curtains, was the altar. Fronting the alter-stage was a three foot wooden collection box--a glass panel exposing a substantial sprawl of bills. Behind the box, yellow marble steps tiered upwards towards a row of white lattice huts, all backed by silver lame curtains. Inside the huts, decked with purple and red leis, sat various wide eyed Kewpie doll recreations of Krishna. The whole thing was strongly reminiscent of a Wheel of Fortune Fun in Hawaii showcase...
...help laid-off workers find jobs are proliferating. Some 300 of these outplacement firms now operate, compared with twelve companies a decade ago. Says Robert Hecht, chairman of Lee Hecht Harrison, a New York City-based outplacement firm: "Years ago people thought only deadbeats and the lame ended up in outplacement. But that has changed...
...almost bizarre irrelevance to the world outside the White House windows. Ronald Reagan's Administration has been gravely wounded by Iranscam, faces newly assertive Democratic majorities in both Houses of Congress, and seems bereft of the bold initiatives that might save the last two years of his presidency from lame-duck drift. Yet he carries on with the same unruffled optimism and inattention to the messy details of policy that have marked his administrative style since his early days as Governor of California...
...routine as predicted and Reagan once again demonstrates his remarkable powers of physical recuperation, he faces a daunting task of political recovery. Almost immediately, he will have to map an agenda that might make the last quarter of his presidency something other than a period of lame-duck drift...