Word: lamed
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...condition that the U.S. had attached to its participation in the 14-nation Geneva conference was an effective ceasefire. But with Ban Hat Bo, the U.S. seemed to have abandoned even that feeble condition, offering the somewhat lame excuse that otherwise "the pace of events might pass us by." U.S. Delegate Averell Harriman charged that two companies of Viet Minh troops had participated in the earlier attack on Padong, and again asked Russia's Andrei Gromyko to approve a Canadian plan to dispatch helicopters and light planes to the International Control Commission so that it could carry...
...Center's directors can back up their policy of restraint with a disturbing history of fights, riots and walkouts. Still it is a lame excuse; the Center does a greater disservice to its members by refusing to risk a few quarrels than it would by risking them and encouraging the interest of Americans. And, after all, the students meeting on Garden Street are to be the peacemakers of this world, and they ought to be quite capable of setting political disputes without recourse to rage or violence...
...have had their salaries cut as much as $50,000. But G.E. made no move at all to discipline its most important figure in the trial: Vice President Ginn, head of G.E.'s important turbine-generator department at a salary of $125,000 a year. G.E.'s lame reason: Ginn's illegal activities in the transformer field were outside the company's own three-year statute of limitations for antitrust violations. Westinghouse demoted none of its executives, noted that its employees' punishment "already is harsh," and announced that "no further penalties would serve any useful...
...Lame-Duck Governor Furcolo, who has little affection for Jack Kennedy, made it clear by the terseness of his announcement that he was depressed by having to name Smith, and felt powerless to oppose it. Actually, Kennedy had favored Congressman (and Old Harvard Roommate) Torbert Macdonald for the post, hopeful that Macdonald would be strong enough after the two-year interim appointment to make the race for reelection. But with Furcolo resisting a Macdonald appointment (Massachusetts pols were gossiping that the Governor was trying to hold Kennedy up for a big Administration job), Kennedy decided to settle for Ben Smith...
...nothing more than register regular fortnightly requests-which the Soviets as regularly ignore-for permission to interview the imprisoned men. The department has skipped from one excuse to another to explain its inaction: first it was the embarrassment of the Powers case, then it was the election. Recently, the lame explanation has been offered that nothing must be done until the new Administration takes office. When the Russians offered to return the airmen as a "gift" to the Kennedy Administration, the State Department had no comment-not even insisting again that the men are illegally held and the victims...