Word: lamed
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...lame-duck 81st Congress lingered on, dying slowly but not gracefully. Members were in a vagrant holiday mood; by midweek so many had left Washington that the leaders were barely able to call up a quorum. As matters stood before the Christmas recess, the 81st would not be able to adjourn until the day before the 82nd Congress convened...
...kind of days he was putting in. Last week he received scores of callers, many of them retiring lame-duck Congressmen. One evening, heavily guarded by Secret Service men, he rode up to Capitol Hill for a dinner honoring two key Democrats who had been defeated at the polls:Majority Leader Scott Lucas of Illinois and Party Whip Francis Myers of Pennsylvania. "I have learned," Harry Truman told the assembled lame ducks, "that if you stick around in public life long enough, defeat is certain...
...world situation being what it is, Maryland's lame-duck Senator Millard R. Tydings announced, the family had decided to cancel the elaborate "coming-of-age ball" in Washington's Mayflower Hotel for their pretty, blonde, 18-year-old daughter Eleanor. Both parents and grandparents, onetime Ambassador and Mrs. Joseph E. Davies, decided it would be better to substitute "a small and simple" dance at the Chevy Chase Club "in keeping with the austerity of the times...
...Listened resignedly in the House to Pennsylvania's cantankerous Lame Duck Robert F. ("Where's the money coming from?") Rich, who read a piece of doggerel, partly of his own composing...
...gonna get out of here," said Lieut. Colonel Raymond L. Murray, commander of the 5th Marine Regiment. "Any officer who doesn't think so will kindly go lame and be evacuated, but I don't expect any bites for that offer." There were no bites...