Word: laming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...haute couture was peeping boldly too. In draughty salons along what was once the elegant Kurfürstendamm, bright-eyed mannequins modeled the first designs after the defeat. They were almost as frothy as France's after victory. The shortage of materials was a handicap, but gold lame, for instance, could be made to do for both cocktail gowns and housecoats (see cut). For Berlin's new army of cyclists there was a snappy yellow-&-black suit with a matching belt in canary suede...
...recognized ideas and statements ("dialectic is the foe of poetry"). But it contains little that is not self-evident to readers who know that poetry belongs more properly to the heart and ear than to the head and eye. Moreover, Shapiro chose to write his essay in a singularly lame conversational style which would have made dullish reading as prose and, as verse, very seldom practices what it preaches...
...Some way must be found," was the lame conclusion of 1942, "to make tutorial equal in value with the work of any given course without destroying the tutorial method. This means . . . giving the tutor the sense that the quality of his tutorial instruction is as important to his personal future as the quality of his research; and . . . giving to the student the feeling that his education would be incomplete without tutorial." The '39 conclusions were more specific...
After winning exactly 50 out of 100 races, and $252,996, Old Bones pulled up lame. By now a sentimental trouper, forlorn and desolate at being exiled to Owner Willis Sharpe Kilmer's Binghamton, N.Y. farm, he went off his feed. Then he got a new interest: a pint-sized pony pal named Peanuts II, who could walk under Old Bones' belly. When Peanuts died last year, Exterminator again stopped eating, until his pal's body was left in his stall overnight; they found him kneeling with his head on Peanuts' cold flank...
Visiosn of Saint Francis. Pierrette Regimbal is a frail, pale child, seventh in a French Canadian family of twelve. Since early childhood she has been lame. One day about five years ago Pierette was playing near home when she believed she saw Saint Francis of Assisi. She touched the saint's hands. Then she saw that her own hands were bloodstained. Her lameness, she said, was momentarily cured. (She still uses crutchees...