Word: lames
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...consult CHUL. Fox has resorted to such dissent-quashing tactics before, with equally undesirable results. His unveiling of a comprehensive housing plan during fall reading period (when most students were busy studying for exams) enabled him to railroad substantial alterations in the housing system through a lame-duck CHUL which had rejected a similar plan in less harried times. Apart from the undemocratic way in which the decision to open the Union and reduce breakfast service was made, the change itself will result in inconveniences for both students and workers. Most upperclassmen will now have to leave the warm confines...
...Kremlin conference room, which once had been Lenin's study. As Vance and the Soviet leader faced each other across a 50-ft.-long table, the mood in the room was so strained that even normally dour Andrei Gromyko tried to lighten the atmosphere with a few lame attempts at humor. TIME Correspondent Christopher Ogden, who had previously reported from Moscow and was back last week covering the Vance trip, was struck by the Soviet leader's physical appearance: "Brezhnev's health had failed terribly since I last saw him in 1974. His cheeks and jowls were...
...during the summer, Kirkland came up lame in a pickup game. He had pulled a muscle away from his hip making even walking painful. Figuring what the athletic director giveth he can taketh away (ie. scholarships), and wanting to go East, Kirkland found himself at Harvard...
Using the license available to a lame-duck Administration, the Ford CEA report acknowledged a politically touchy and therefore long-ignored reality: "full employment" no longer means a jobless rate of 4%, the level generally accepted in the '50s and early '60s. The Ford report pegs it at 4.9%. Many economists suggest that it should be even higher, perhaps as much...
...about a fifth have said they favored independence, with an equal number who had never heard of the island. Many Americans do not understand, for example, that Puerto Ricans are American citizens, with full political rights when they live in the States. It is much more serious than a lame duck President's whim, when a majority of Americans seem to believe statehood would be good for the Puerto Ricans and the United States...