Word: lames
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...amount of speechifying, however, could dim the fact that the American Party, founded three years ago and made up of various state parties that had backed Wallace in the 1968 presidential election, was what one dispirited conventioneer called a "headless horseman." The delegates nominated a lame-duck Republican Congressman from California named John Schmitz for President and Thomas Anderson, 61, conservative publisher of Florida Grower and Rancher magazine for Vice President...
JAMES TAYLOR thinks the blues is just a bad dream, and Duke Ellington once wrote that the blues is a gray, gray day. But the blues is more; played and sung right, it can really heal the sick, raise the dead, make the lame walk and make the blind see. Because the blues is often spiritually cleansing. B.B. King brought his blues, the cleansing, uplifting type, to the still night air of Boston Common last week, and to a predominantly white audience, proving that even as far away from his turf as he was that Wednesday night, the blues reaches...
...surprise; Premier Golda Meir delayed any assessment pending further word from Sadat. In Moscow, Tass waited a full 24 hours to comment, a sure sign that the Kremlin had not worked out answers ahead of time. The eventual explanation for the swift departure of Soviet personnel from Egypt was lame: "Now [they] have completed their functions, and the sides deemed it expedient to bring back military personnel sent to Egypt for a limited period." To Americans that had an oddly familiar sound-like a declaration that Egyptianization had been a complete success...
...junior Senator from Missouri had been informed that he was on George McGovern's "short list" of vice-presidential choices, and the waiting was withering. He had stayed up half the previous night sipping gins and tonic and wisecracking with his aides to ease the tension. His lame jokes were not half so funny as the fact that he was wearing unmatched shoes. The next morning he paced his hotel room like a caged cat, twitching each time the telephone rang. By 2 p.m. he had grown testy and was convinced that he had been bypassed. Then...
...need to prepare for a party conference coming up in July, but the Japanese are unconvinced. They suspect that Ceausescu, who talked to a dissident Japanese politician in Bucharest early last month, simply decided that it would be better to wait and deal later with whoever succeeds lame duck Premier Eisaku Sato...