Word: lamed
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Luftwaffe Pilot Müller bumbled like Walt Disney's Dopey. Whenever his Messerschmitt squadron buzzed over the Fifth Army front in Italy, he fluttered on the formation's edge, a lame duck awkwardly trying to join...
...Lame & the Blind. The wounded men and their helpers began trickling down from the crest. A man with most of his shoulder shot away was guiding a blinded man. One limped along. The litter team carried a sergeant whose leg was bad and whose face was cut. Captain Wozenski had to detail some whole men to help. I took the arm of the blinded...
...Martinique, sometime Borsch-Circuiter Jackie Miles makes a lively pat-ter-and-gag man. Sample: He asks an Army doctor whether there is any chance of a deferment. Answers the sawbones: "Not unless your seeing-eye dog goes lame...
Conrad's lame English wife Jessie "was without exception the best and most perfect woman I have ever had the good fortune to know. . . . She was not intellectual, but hers was that wisdom of quiet, unassumed, penetrating judgment of people and situations, the well-balanced poise of mind, which is found among old and very honorable people." To Conrad, "she was wife, mother and guardian, besides being his secretary and assistant in his work." During Conrad's frequent bouts with acute malaria and gout, he could endure no nursing except hers (though, with a desperate...
Until Tripoli fell, the Italian press and radio carried only vague reports of fighting moving west in Libya. When the capitulation could no longer be kept from the people, there were lame excuses that Tripoli was no longer strategically important. But the Italians asked: "Where was Rommel?" They remembered Winston Churchill's pledge of December 1940 to rip Mussolini's overseas empire into tatters. They wondered how long it would take before the tide of battle surged across the Mediterranean to their own shores...