Word: laming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year career he had achieved a record few men in U.S. history have equaled. Almost singlehandedly he brought about abolition of "lame duck" Congresses; he was largely responsible for Nebraska's unicameral legislature, for the TVA. But now the Senate would be without him. George W. Norris, running for re-election at 81, had been defeated...
Died. Sebastian Cardinal Lame da Silveira Cintra, 60; of a heart attack; in Rio de Janeiro. He was made Cardinal in 1930, the same year intervened in the revolution that put Getulio Vargas in power, was credited with saving the life of incumbent Washington Luis. While the revolutionaries' guns were trained on Guanabara Palace where President Luis had holed up for a stand to the death, the Cardinal gained entrance, found Luis, talked to him for half an hour, persuaded him to abdicate...
...before Tin Pan Alley became a business machine, the U.S. learned and sang its songs in rowdy taverns, stuffy parlors, minstrel shows, free-and-easies. It got many of them from anonymous buskers who worked for throw money, known only as "the old geezer with the dulcimer" or "the lame fellow who plays the accordion in Franklin Square." It bought most of its sheet music (words only) as penny broadsides, hawked by old men & women on street corners, or in dime songbooks. As the nation's customs, styles, manners and morals changed, so did its songs. Much...
...prepared to mobilize for total war. This meant manpower-and woman-power; every man, woman, youth and maid, of every race, color and creed who is not lame or halt or blind. The move was one of potentially vast scope: it meant, if carried all the way through, a shake-up of U.S. life so deep, so wide, so far-reaching it could not yet be grasped. It might take another year or more of total war to bring the earthquake shock full home...
...Desert, the Italians were sitting in fortified strongholds. Over that long trail of rocks and sand the Free French moved to attack. The sun was broiling hot. Sometimes their trucks got stuck in the sand a dozen times in a hundred yards. Cattle driven ahead for fresh meat fell lame, had to be slaughtered...