Word: lameduck
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Johnson and Sweet, however, are strong choices to develop into very capable replacements for the varsity's lameduck foil squad. Jack Briley, also a beginner in foil, will be odds-on to start in the third foil slot. Kane, lacking a starting birth in foil, will stand by in reserve for both the foil and epee events...
...Mendes' remarks, the other leading candidates unhappily had little else to offer. Growled Algeria's Governor General Jacques Soustelle, whom Mendes, as Premier, had appointed: "No magic wand can settle the problem at one stroke." Lacking a magic wand, politicians groped for a magic word. To lameduck Premier Edgar Faure, that word was integration, which lies somewhere between assimilation, now abandoned as an impractical dream, and federation, which implies wholesale remodeling of the French Union. To Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay, federalism was the magic word: it would bring "solidarity within diversity...
...Lameduck Premier Edgar Faure reminded everyone of a half-forgotten provision in the 1951 electoral laws, banning local alliances which are not approved by a party's national leadership. And the national leadership was firm. Said Socialist Boss Guy Mollet, a mild-mannered but tough-minded ex-professor of English: "One doesn't throw oneself into the arms of those who for years have tried to strangle us and have killed our Socialist brothers in the prisons of enslaved Europe." Leaders of the Socialist unions (Force Ouvriere) backed Mollet: "For us to ally with Communists would deliver...
Laniel, whose government must resign in January when France inaugurates a new President, was trying to get some sort of moral support (not ratification) for EDC out of the Assembly, to give his lameduck government a little more standing at Bermuda. The Premier watered his resolution down as far as he could without draining it of all meaning: "The National Assembly . . . asks for assurances that the policy of building a united Europe will be continued . . ." Then Laniel put the squeeze on the Deputies by submitting the resolution to a vote of confidence. This meant that, if the measure was voted...
...times in his presidency, there was nothing on Harry Truman's desk that required urgent action. His chief unfinished business-other than backing up Jimmy Byrnes at Paris-was filling some top Administration vacancies. He had at least one good candidate around: Wisconsin's able, lameduck Senator Robert M. La Follette. Dopesters had Bob La Follette taking over the chairmanship of the TVA, thus releasing David E. Lilienthal to become chairman of the new Atomic Energy Commission...