Word: lames
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Army's Special Forces. These men, who wear distinctive green berets, fashion crude villages of thatched huts, canvas and pine logs in the woods, act out roles as insurgents or villagers battling for control. Defenders whittle branches into spikes, set them upright under leaves to lame invaders. To show the "natives" how to treat wounds, a friendly medic snaps the neck of a rabbit, slits its belly open for a blood-and-guts anatomy lesson. "This is the liver." he explains. "These are the intestines...
There was a time, barely a year ago, when Mosaic was packed with lame fiction and sickly personal essays that all suffered from the same fault. Very few writers discussed matters relevant to their experience at Harvard; instead they sought "genuine" Jewish material and produced stories about shtetl culture or essays about "chasidism for today's youth." They looked back to the Central European world of their grandparents and proved, by the meager quality of their work, that Kasrilevkeh cannot inspire someone who was never there...
...housing commission probably will issue a special report at the next session of the Legislature, dealing with one of New York's major problems: the racial segregation that is a corollary of income segregation in urban housing guarantees a sharp critique, not a lame survey, of existing programs...
...yesterday to win the 67th Boston A.A. Marathon. Johnny Keyley of Groton, Conn., was second in 2:21:09. Defending champion Eino Oksanen of Finland crossed the line fourth. Erich W. Segal '58, University teaching fellow in General Education, also entered the marathon. He pulled up lame at the 18-mile mark and did not finish...
...Jesse Pearson) rides his motorcycle, rough-tired, right up the steps of the courthouse square, where a welcoming committee of bobby-soxed votaries is waiting to recite its oath: "I pledge allegiance to Conrad Birdie and to the United States of America." Shrieks greet the sight of his gold lame riding habit, and when he begins to sing Honestly Sincere, even the mayor's wife folds into gatelegged collapse. Pearson's 6-ft. 3-in. frame lacks the necessary baby fat for a first-class ribbing of the plot's obvious target, but the sideburns holding...