Word: lameing
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...thatched of grass but without furniture due to intense poverty. We have neither domesticated animal nor cash crop that can wealth us, so as to aid me in the education sphere. May I add that I have got no elder brother to support me and my father is lame. So this incident combined with chronical poverty imposes upon me an overwhelming barrier which goads me tremendously to weep to you for the first help...
...months remaining to him, Brazil's lame-duck President Humberto Castello Branco is restlessly pursuing his aim of completing the drastic remodeling of Brazil that he began after the army rebellion that overthrew Leftist President Joāo Goulart in April of 1964. During his drive to transform his country into a disciplined and modern society, Castello Branco has increasingly avoided Congress and simply started decreeing laws in what a top U.S. diplomat calls "an orgy of Calvinistic legislation." Calvinistic it may be, but it is a badly needed antidote for the orgy of inflationist and frequently pro-Communist...
...anything and everything else that glitters, including gold, sequins, paillettes, mirrors, foil, beads and crystal. From one end of the nation to the other, the bestselling look in women's evening fashions this year is sparkle plenty, and then some. It can be seen in silver and gold lame shoes, hats, bags, evening pajamas, raincoats and even bikinis; it comes in sequined and jewel-encrusted and beaded dresses, and in silver mesh and see-through dresses with dazzling bras to go under them...
When on the town, Lee Radziwill wears a white lame and silver-sequined dress. Barbara Howar, Washington's high priestess of mad mod fashion, showed up at the International Ball in a strapless tent dress of silver lame ribbons on net, while her best friend, Yolande Fox, came wrapped in silver tinsel threaded through ice-blu lace...
Irreparable Consequences. Lolli's subsequent resignation and Longo's determination to leave with him turn the top management of the Banco del Lavoro into a lame-duck administration and hobble its operations. "We can do absolutely nothing about planning even six months from now," complains one bank official. Even some politicians resent the dumping of Lolli, an expert on international monetary matters whose views on the gold flow have been sought by the U.S. Treasury and Congress. The sequence of events that led to the Longo-Lolli resignations, said an editorial in the left-of-center Republican Party...