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Word: lames (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...guns and barbed wire around the palace to deliver another reminder of U.S. concern. At Inchon, 25,000 people turned out to demonstrate-with no violence from the chastened police-for new elections. Late in the week, despite the fact that his term still had four months to run. Lame Duck John Chang resigned as Vice President with the avowed intention of encouraging both Rhee and Lee Ki Poong to follow his example...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH KOREA: Old Men Forget | 5/2/1960 | See Source »

...with their Latin. But Editor Warsley is especially proud of the 2,000 subscribers, such as the Hoosier farmer, who take the magazine because they like to read Latin, not because they have to. He tries to make each issue lively rather than pedantic. The jokes tend to be lame: Primus: "Noah Webster optime Anglice locutus est." Se-cundus: "Ego quoque possem, si meum proprium dictionarium scripsissem."* But the fiction sometimes has its excitement, e.g., a recent story entitled Cadaver Absens (The Missing Corpse). Although many prospective advertisers (books, crayons, even liquor) have expressed interest, Warsley has held...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Semper Latina | 1/4/1960 | See Source »

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