Word: lamely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...acquired coal mines, dipped into politics, was carried to Washington as Kentucky's Senator by the Coolidge sweep of 1924. Short, sandy, round-stomached, he plodded through his term, rarely made a speech, much less an oration. He was on the way to becoming a "lame duck" in this year's campaign when President Hoover selected him for Berlin for two chief reasons: 1) Republican Kentucky was restive from lack of Class-A patronage; 2) Senator Sackett had been Mr. Hoover's Kentucky food administrator during...
...days, indoors, putting the treasures into press and starting their proper drying, before another active day of field work can be undertaken. Often enough, after stretching every muscle and testing every nerve in the ticklish ascent and descent of successive cliffs, we reach home with our knee-joints so lame and stiff that no one utters a single word of complaint at the enforced inactivity of the succeeding...