Word: lameing
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...scheduled trip to Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela this week. A former Argentine ambassador to the U.S. remarked: "No one down here is thinking that Ford and Kissinger are going to come up with anything new. As far as we're concerned, Kissinger and Ford are already lame ducks...
...from my country, he's a Greek and is a brave warrior that my father wants me to marry. She - uh, he - uh, it is played by Shirley Verrett. So it is no wonder that I prefer Maometto, who is played by Gus Diaz, with a gold lame costume and shoes that curl up at the toes. It makes a big difference...
...rises. It ain't much, their little apartment, but it's all they got. The developers find the oldsters a new place to live - "way across town," as one of them complains, "and twice the rent" - expecting them to shuffle along. These oldsters fight back. They are lame, halt, blind and loony, but scrappy enough for all that...
After the Democratic landslide last fall, it looked as if a lot of lame-duck Republicans were going to have to leave Washington-a fate dreaded by politicians who have grown accustomed to the power and perquisites available in the nation's capital. But the anxieties of many of them have been allayed; they are going to stay put, thanks to the benevolence of President Ford who once served in Congress with them. He has already appointed a dozen G.O.P. election losers to Government at salaries not too far below their congressional pay of $42,500 a year...
...engaging in illegal deceptive trade practices. The National Observer reported these events in a sort of retraction in its Feb. 15 issue. The story conceded that Carmichael's car might "turn out to be only a dream," and one Washington-based editor, Lionel Linder, also mustered a lame defense of Peterson's original article as primarily a "personality piece." Meanwhile, the personality of the piece and her mavericks are on the lam from...