Word: lamed
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...hinted at his boredom when he told Connecticut's lame duck Senator Bill Benton that the presidential calendar was loaded with speaking engagements up to Jan. 20-and that he was sorry he had accepted so many. A few days later he failed to show up for a luncheon date with the National Conference of Christians and Jews. Then, on Armistice Day, he sent Navy Secretary Dan Kimball off to do the presidential honors at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. He canceled his regular press conference on the grounds that he had nothing to say, refused...
...harness racing season two years ago, Dunbar W. Bostwick sadly contemplated Chris Spencer, his eight-year-old trotter. Soon after setting a track record of 3 min. 10½ sec. in the 1½-mile Gotham trot, the aging gelding had gone lame and looked finished. But Optimist Bostwick had observed that trotters swim at a trotting gait. He reasoned that Chris might get back his bounce if he could exercise his legs without jarring them on a hard track...
...Vermont farm on Lake Champlain, Bostwick began giving Chris regular dips, towing him behind a motorboat. Chris improved enough to win two starts last year, but again pulled up lame. Last week, after many more lake workouts and a hot 1952 campaign, Chris, now a venerable ten-year-old, was back at Yonkers Raceway near New York City, a 6-to-1 shot in a renewal of the $25,000 Gotham Trot. Starting in the second tier, Chris passed such topnotch trotters as Yankee Hanover, Pronto Don and Main-liner, breezed across the finish six lengths ahead. The sea horse...
...Smithsonian Institution acknowledged receipt of a grey satin and silver lame evening gown worn by Bess Truman at the 1949 inaugural reception. The Smithsonian will drape the gown over a plaster cast form and add it next year to the collection of twelve inaugural dresses worn by earlier First Ladies...
...skipper of one of the "suicide" tugs that stole out virtually unarmed (in the early days of the war, Britain had no guns to spare), to rescue disabled stragglers of the convoys from the prowling wolf packs of the German undersea fleet. The U-boats sometimes let the lame ducks stay afloat in order to get a shot at the tugboats...