Word: lames
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
AFTER ONLY two months of his second term, President Nixon has already become a lame duck President. The Watergate crisis has seriously undermined the credibility of his Administration, and has doomed any domestic and foreign policy programs that Nixon intended to push through the slightly Democratic Congress...
This is a lame excuse at best. The tribal councils cannot function-either financially or legally- without the approval of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and that organization must answer to the Interior Department...
...throat fills with thorns and she wants to scream. The thorns prick into her life and bleed fire. Why should he comfort her in his lame-ass way? She doesn't even know his name. She mustn't awaken him again, oh no; but it would be better to move, to vanish, than scream, for she has no idea where the scream would take her. So with infinite slowness she begins to wriggle from his embrace. He is unaware...
Western State's Les Huttenen, in one of his teams distinctive silver lame with red trim jumpsuits was thrown off line and travelling 40 m.p.h., crashed through one of the square red paper course markers hung between two poles, much like the climax of a Platformate commercial, and, blinded for the moment, whizzed over the toes of several transfixed spectators...
...there is something called Cable that makes the reception better-although for what purpose is not so clear. True, there are no more cigarette commercials, and some programs called Sesame Street and The Electric Company are brightening the day for children. But for adults, it is, as always, lame adventure series and innocuous sitcoms, the halt leading the bland. There are fewer talk shows and more movies made expressly for TV-all of them, it seems, starring James Farentino and George Peppard...