Word: laming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...third member and probable chairman of the board, which will have the big. ticklish job of disposing of some $75 billion in surplus materials, is expected to be Iowa's lame-duck Senator, Guy M. Gillette. (He cannot be appointed till his present term expires.) The Senate will probably approve him. But it would be no sinecure-already the Board has stirred up one bitter fight which caused the President to drop his first choice for chairman, Defense Plant Corp. President Sam H. Husbands (TIME...
Half the members of the Dies Committee were lame ducks-Martin Dies had decided not to run, and three more were picked off by the voters. Last week the whole Committee became a dead duck. House leaders of both parties agreed that the Committee-which could find a Communist under almost any bed-should not be revived when its lease of life runs out on Jan. 3. Some U.S. citizens were delighted at the news; few shed tears...
...Democratic sweep was such that Franklin Roosevelt had but a few lame ducks: Senators Guy Gillette of Iowa, Sam Jackson of Indiana and most notable of all, Henry Wallace. All the U.S. would watch to see what kind of job Mr. Wallace gets...
...South Carolina's lame duck Senator Cotton Ed Smith galumphed into Washington, vowed he could wreck Term IV. He organized a National Agricultural Committee, set out to "deliver the nation's farm vote" to Tom Dewey in the next five weeks. Roared metaphor-mixing Cotton Ed: "We have taken a nose dive into hell! I have great hopes that a miracle will gird up its loins and try another deal." Next day, the committee folded...
...Rome since Mussolini sent him down from the north to be chief of the capital's police and quell the rising opposition to war and Fascism. He had been a practising sadist. He had kept a private apartment where he personally tortured prize victims. He had been lame since the day a gnat flew into his eye as he raced northward in an open car to escape the Allies. The car had swerved into a ditch. Caruso broke...