Word: lamely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unquestionably, the main issue of such an election would be the constitutional one. Thus the possibility arises of a Council being elected to abolish itself, or of a lame duck council dissolving the posts its successors were to fill...
...Intent on blunting the new majority's power, Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller quickly summoned a special session of the old legislature, forced through a reapportionment bill favoring Republicans and two measures that put $617 million of the state's bond reserves out of Democratic reach. Said Lame Duck Rochester Republican Assemblyman Eugene Goddard: "It's a common practice when you're about to be taken over by the Huns to change the locks on the doors...
...decision does not automatically end local prosecution of sit-in cases; civil rights lawyers may have to seek dismissal in specific cases. Yet it does mean that a great variety of civil rights advocates-ranging from Mrs. Malcolm Peabody, 73-year-old mother of Massachusetts' lame-duck Governor, to Mardon Walker, a 19-year-old daughter of a white Navy captain, no longer need fear confinement. Said a relieved Miss Walker in New London, Conn., where she is a student at Connecticut College: "I somehow felt that I would never have to serve 18 months in jail for trying...
...Invalid Tricycle Foundation of Wales (for crippled miners). Wife Liz had a different challenge. For a Lido opening in Paris, the invitations specified evening pajamas, and half the haut monde came in lace or sequined trousers. Not Liz. "I.wear slacks to work," she sniffed, threw on her gold lame sari by Balenciaga, and discovered that in spite of being so old-gown, she rated Table Numero Un between two boulevardiers who could afford to clothe her in pure gold: Aristotle Onassis and Baron Guy de Rothschild...
...theme that slowly surfaces in these first two novels of what Doris Lessing plans as a five-novel-cycle. The heroine is a girl of middle-class English parents who was born and grows up in a British colony in Africa. Her name, Martha Quest, is recognized first as lame symbolism and then as intentional irony. Martha is not questing for anything. Her father is an unsuccessful farmer and a passionate hypochondriac her mother is a graceless worshipper of convention...