Word: lamed
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...Bermuda will be a forerunner of talks with Malenkov. Churchill has been longing for a Big Three chat ever since he was denied Big Four talks. Now the Big Three at least would meet, but under a particularly nullifying circumstance. Laniel will be able to speak only for a lame-duck government which must automatically dissolve when France elects a new President -within ten days to a month after the Bermuda meeting...
Last spring the CRIMSON accused me editorially of a "casual blending of free enterprise, morality, religion, and salvation" in suggesting a "Free Enterprise Fund" to combat the Communistic influences at Harvard. They declined to publish my answer on the lame grounds that it would take up too much space. The real reason, I suspect, is that they feared...
Many of the geneticists who listened to the Pope noticed that his right arm seemed to be lame. The explanation: he had wrenched his right arm trying to help a hefty pilgrim from his knees. Temporarily, the Pope had switched his ring to his left hand...
MODERN artists find it easier to express passion than to praise God, and, except for Georges Rouault, they have generally chosen the easier course. But now a lame, grey, and perhaps great artist in Madrid has taken Rouault's high and lonely road. His name: Francisco Cossio. His finest achievement to date: a 20-foot-high mural (opposite) for Madrid's National Carmelite Church. While Rouault's paintings glow with almost painfully intense devotion, Cossio's masterpiece gleams cool and peaceful as a September dawn. Cossio, 54, spent three years on the mural, hopes to finish...
...Forbes as a two-year-old (for $275) from a relative, is not yet ready to declare his independence of cows. "I've been working eight years to feed my horses, now one of them is feeding me," he grants. But he adds worriedly: "A horse can go lame just standing in a stable...