Word: laming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Slammin' Sammy Snead cussed his corset and his hook. Without his corset, he wouldn't be playing golf at all; even with it, his lame back (slipped vertebra) needed two weeks of rest in every six. His hook off the tee continually landed him in tall grass, behind trees. Yet crowd-drawing, drawling Sammy had somehow managed to stand the winter circuit troupe on its par-cracking ear. Ever since his 26-month hitch in the Navy, the once temperamental Samuel Jackson Snead had played with a brand new and compelling confidence...
...President has rarely fired anybody, but he swept aging Jesse Jones out as head of the Commerce Department, the RFC, and RFC's eight potent subsidiaries.* The reason was purely political and Mr. Roosevelt made no bones about it. It was to give a job to lame-duck Vice President Henry Wallace...
...78th Congress flickered to a finish, lame-duck Congressmen seized their last chance. One by one, they took to the floor with prepared valedictories. Most of their colleagues had already gone home, but the Congressional Record was still there, duty-bound to print every last quack. Each swan-songster was convinced that his constituents had been misguided, but magnanimously agreed to abide by the voters' decision. Each also wanted to take a few fast, final pokes at the Soviet Union and the British Empire...
MacLeish's inquisitor was Missouri's lame duck Bennett Champ Clark. MacLeish's offenses were the sins of liberal pamphleteering and rhetorical poetry. In the marble-pillared Senate Caucus Room, he gamely, lamely countered the poking and prodding of his tormentor...
Strongest opposition to the appointees will come from the Senate's 37 Republicans. Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio pointed out that Hurley, defeated for reelection in 1942 and this year, was a "lame duck twice rejected by the people of his state." Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg tartly added: "We are dealing with surplus property, not surplus politicians." Democratic confirmation of Hurley and Heller seemed assured...