Word: lames
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Local rent control was ended December 29 at a stormy lame-duck meeting of the old City Council...
...find a good basic idea," she says, "we stick with it, just changing the sleeves, collars and accents." One popular outfit is her polyester knit Nancy Pants, and an other style is the Tom Jones blouse, which has a full sleeve with a wide, snug cuff. She makes gold lame pantsuits, gaucho pants, knickers and patio dresses, and refuses to rule out any particular style for her customers-except for "anything tight" and numbers with buttons all the way down the front (they may gap and pull open). Nancy Austin believes that her clothes make fat women feel happier. Perhaps...
Another problem with today's wrestlers which showed up in the bouts last week was the creeping Namathism which has gotten into the sport. You never saw the old time wrestlers going around in sequinned lame jump suits and diamond studded lavender robes. Nowadays, however, wrestlers don't feel they've made it unitl they start dressing up like Liberace, or even Lawrence Welk. Take, for instance, the match between Beautiful Bobby and Fred Blassie. (And what is a wrestler doing with a name like Beautiful Bobby anyway?) The referee was blinded by the gitler of the rhinesiones. You couldn...
...impeachment of William O. Douglas, and the spectacle of the failed Haynsworth and Carswell nominations, the court is still held in considerable reverence by the American people. Yet historians can point out long periods when the court's influence and importance in U.S. life made it a very lame third branch of government indeed. Such a decline in significance might happen again, particularly since the court now seems certain to back away from the particular style of activism that characterized its years under Chief Justice Earl Warren. Even so, building on the changes in American society initiated...
...venereal disease and pregnancy. Neighborhood cleanups rarely zero in on landlords' violations of housing codes. Many 4-H members seem to be ambitious kids who need help least. Compared to the Black Power slogan that it imitates, the bucolic Indiana 4-H motto ("Clover Power") seems more lame than with...