Word: lames
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nothing more than register regular fortnightly requests-which the Soviets as regularly ignore-for permission to interview the imprisoned men. The department has skipped from one excuse to another to explain its inaction: first it was the embarrassment of the Powers case, then it was the election. Recently, the lame explanation has been offered that nothing must be done until the new Administration takes office. When the Russians offered to return the airmen as a "gift" to the Kennedy Administration, the State Department had no comment-not even insisting again that the men are illegally held and the victims...
...limp Crimson quarterback, with tears in his eyes, shook hands with Singleton, the Yale whom he had bettered as a freshman, sophomore, and junior. Only in his last appearance when running far below full speed because of a knee injury did Ravenel lose to his Yale counterpart. Although lame, Ravenel still stole the show from Singleton, who has played well in each of the four rivalries...
...lame try to clear up the muddle comes a thin volume by Eugene Black, the President of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. His approach to the subject of development planning is different from most: what he says is at least unpretentious and fairly substantial...
While others were noisily campaigning across the nation last week, the Northern Cheyenne Indian tribe quietly held an election of its own in the rolling lands and rough mountains of Montana. Among the victors: Johnny Woodenlegs of Lame Deer, Mont., re-elected President; John Stands in the Timber, John Kills on Top Sr., August Spotted Elk, William Hollowbreast, Clarence Spotted Wolf, members of the tribal council...
Last week change threatened Lebanon's long political truce. Saeb Salam, a leader in the 1958 rebellion, had won a comeback victory in last month's parliamentary elections, was demanding appointment as Premier. All seemed settled when the lame-duck Cabinet members presented themselves at the palace to resign. President Chehab had a surprise for them. He announced his own resignation, effective immediately. "I have done my duty; my conscience is clear," he declared, and talked of a long vacation on the Riviera...