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Word: lames (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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This week has been one of those times. The state legislators convened for their lame-duck session Monday, and they quickly demonstrated their instinct for self-interest and their aversion to bold political action...

Author: By Jacob M. Schlesinger, | Title: Lame Ducks | 11/11/1982 | See Source »

...state legislature opened its lame duck session yesterday with work on pay raises and drug law reform--high priority items on an agenda influenced by the recent state elections...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: State Legislature Reconvenes for 'Lame Duck' Session | 11/9/1982 | See Source »

...with the aggressively weird psyche of the eight-year-old. In Minnesota, they say, for weird. Bogus is an ordinary, though slightly out-of-the-way word that has been recommissioned as youth slang that means fraudulent or simply second-rate or silly. Bogus is a different shading of lame. Something that is easy is cinchy. Overexcited? One is blowing a hype...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: If Slang Is Not a Sin | 11/8/1982 | See Source »

...certainly our biggest win in a long, long time," three-year veteran Lamont comments with Lame understatement...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: Frustrated Jocks and First-Timers Find House Football More Than Just Fun | 10/26/1982 | See Source »

...Organization of Management Confidential Employees (OMCE), a non-bargaining unit of government managers, is suing in New York State Supreme Court to stop the tuition payment to a transportation aid to lame-duck Gov. Hugh Carey. The aid will probably be leaving the government when Carey's term expires this January...

Author: By John D. Solomon, | Title: K-School Pay Suit Filed in N.Y. | 10/5/1982 | See Source »

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