Word: lames
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lame Duck. Last week's showdown at the White House did not bury Moynihan's differences with Washington, and the announcement made no mention of how long Moynihan would stay in his post. At the U.N. many considered him a lame duck, his effectiveness curtailed. This would please his critics but not settle the question: How should the U.S. view the U.N., as a place for conciliation or for confrontation...
...Fagone denied that his men had anything to do with the project. And his judgement that Harvard is responsible for this gift horse gone lame will send the matter to the courts for resolution...
This, more likely, is the latest attempt at reincarnation of Jesus Christ. A man marked in youth by a ricocheting bullet that rendered him lame. Who is so naive, he confesses himself, that he doesn't even know Atlanta has a professional basketball team. Who as a boy of 29 faced the choice: will I be a Supreme Court Justice or will I be "guardian of Lymington" and chose to stay as the police chief of his home town. And ever since has shouldered the various petty sins of his constituency--their drunkeness, their rowdiness, their B&E's, their...
...declined to sign the order, fearing that it would wreck the negotiations he was trying to maintain between the board and the strikers. "I'm so angry I can't speak," snapped Board President Dianne Feinstein, a candidate for Alioto's job when the lame-duck mayor's second four-year term expires in January. Replied Alioto: "That's the best speech she's ever made." Somehow, though, the city's divided authorities got together long enough to head off a strike by 1,900 transit workers that had been threatened...
...Victorians, as Chesterton observed, were "lame giants; the strongest of them walked on one leg a little shorter than the other." It was an epoch of elegance and kitsch, dignity and pornography, liberal cant and imperial overreach. It is this instability that enlivens-and afflicts-Brian Moore's novel, The Great Victorian Collection...