Word: laming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Russian explanations were lame: busy with the immediate necessities of war and reconstructing devastated areas, the country is short of topflight men who have been thinking about postwar organization; Ambassador Gromyko is an able young man ("Why, he served as an UNRRA delegate in Atlantic City!"). A more likely explanation: Russia's topflight diplomats were being held at home to work out the Polish problem. And some State Department men even concluded that the Soviet Union attached little importance to the Dumbarton Oaks discussion anyhow...
...University, the smallest number in 69 years, we were forced to stop in the Yard the other day to take account of what was going on and revise some of our ideas about civilian undergraduates. We had thought that this group was composed of the halt, the lame and the blind, plus a handful of others whose draft boards had been a trifle lenient...
...Jewish paper, Der Stürmer. Hechtic sample: Anti-Semites are "Spiritual harelips, tormented homosexuals, lonely sadists . . . bile peddlers . . . invalids whose . . . bladders drip and whose hearts are a sackful of worms . . . religious zanies who woo God by spitting in His eye . . . mincing and bepimpled, clapper-tongued and swivel-brained . . . lame ducks...
Most of the guests ate buffet style. But in a small back room the Molotovs sat with Harriman and his daughter Kathy, radiant in a long Alice blue gown; Clark Kerr and Alexander Korneichuk and his wife, Wanda Wasilewska, in a black silk skirt topped by a smart white lame jacket. When asked about Polish relations, Korneichuk, the new Foreign Commissar for the Ukraine, spoke charmingly about plans for rebuilding Kiev...
Pants is also called a man of surprises: no big-league player himself, he managed the White Sox to Chicago's last world championship, in 1917. As a Cub scout 21 years later, he obeyed Owner P. K. Wrigley's orders to buy lame-armed Dizzy Dean at any price, finally landed him for the most improvidently invested $185,000 in baseball history...