Word: lamed
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...writers of German Army communiqués were hard put to explain the situation. Their excuses were lame. "The Soviet Army has not engaged in one single, real large-scale attack during the last eight weeks. Anyhow, fighting in the area which was mentioned by the Soviets has not ceased...
...Porgy and Bess" is first of all an exceptionally poignant story set to some of the finest music America has produced. Such famous songs as "Summertime" and the rhythmic death chants admirably depict the spirit of America's most colorful minority, the Negro. The love story of the lame beggar, Porgy, and his sultry Bess is the main theme, which is surrounded with the life in Catfish Row, its joys and sorrows, its day to day gayety and the sudden tragedies springing from a storm at sea or a crap-game brawl. In the first scene the huge stevedore, Crown...
...year career, "Missy" Meloney has been editor of Everybody's, Delineator, the New York Herald Tribune Sunday Magazine, organizer of the Herald Tribune Forum, and once in three interviews with Mussolini got him to answer eleven out of 20 questions. She declares with flashing defiance: "I have been lame since 15, and had a bad lung since 17 and have done the work of three men ever since." Her salary is $40,000 a year...
...before the junta could step in, another figure appeared. He was pale-faced, lame Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia, one of the best friends the U.S. had in Arias' Cabinet. He took over the police in Arias' name, spoiling the junta's plans...
...Farrell for hard hitting narrative to keep the story continually absorbing. Then the plot is neither subtle nor even convincing at times: the idea of a boy in a melancholy mood bursting out involuntarily with weird minor chords, from deep down inside him of course, seems rather a lame attempt to show that this lad had the old jazz spirit in him all along...