Word: lames
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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President Johnson, who knows an impossible job when he sees one, stayed on the Podernales an extra day. It was the first time a President had skipped an opener since lame-duck Dwight Eisenhower put in an extra day's golf at Augusta...
...seem early to be counting convention votes and foolish to ignore a very canny President's ability to name his Vice-President as successor. (After all, even Eisenhower could do that.) But as a lame duck, Lyndon Johnson will find his political capital gravely diminished. He will not be able to play his 1964 trump, for there is no reason whatever to believe that Hubert Humphrey in 1972 will have anything like the popular support...
...Julie Christie had been my mother I don't think I would have forgotten, but Rita Tushingham unfortunately has. Unfortunately, because it gives Guiness an excuse, however lame, to launch into the three-thousand-seventeen-minute story of Dr. Zhivago and his small circle of intimates...
...with a black lace bikini bottom and a purple beach robe with yellow trim. Really putting on the dog was Designer Ursula Lehnhardt, who wrapped her poodle Peppy in white mink and a collar studded with black dice, and Designer Larry Reiter, who dressed his wolfhound Czarina in silver lame and his whippet Isis in a $250 wild marabou coat dyed in bands of blue, purple, pink and orange...
...strong emphasis upon withdrawal from the world, ascetic practice, corporate worship through the liturgy-ideals that were all carried over into the life of Catholic laymen. Along with doctrine, Protestantism strongly rejected this otherworldly spirituality. Puritanism, notes Congregationalist Historian Horton Davies of Princeton, dismissed liturgy "as a lame man might a crutch when he believed himself healed," in favor of free prayer, the Bible and simplicity. Davies quotes from a 1641 Puritan attack on Anglican Prayer Book worship as the work of "mere Surplice and Service-Book men, such as cannot doe so much as a Porter in his frocke...