Word: laming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story got around last week, democratic Uruguayans, long among the staunchest friends of the U.S. in South America, broke out in a fit of anti-U.S. rage. Screamed Montevideo's El Diario: "Commercial cannibalism!" Except for sincere but lame assurances that the U.S. had no reason to discriminate, the Army could offer no explanation...
...lame or blind...
...competitor who put as much emphasis on sportsmanship as on winning. In 1920, when he went to Antwerp as coach of the U.S. Olympic team, Jack Moakley had time for all foreign athletes who sought his advice and guidance. When Canada's star hurdler, Earl Thomson, went lame in practice, Moakley put his trainer to work on the sore spot; in the finals Thomson beat the U.S. men for the championship...
...story of how Joe Parkson, a lame vet, played by Robert Ryan, stalks a prosperous contractor (Van Heflin) who was his senior officer when their plane was forced down during the war and the crew thrown into a German concentration camp. Parkson and ten others had a tunnel built through which they planned to escape. Frank Enley (Heflin) tried to persuade them not to attempt it but when they defied him Enley went to the Nazis, who agreed to leniency in view of the fact that Enley reported the scheme. The Nazis weren't lenient. Parkson was the only...
Your article on our muralist and human-flesh-fancier Diego Rivera is light, bright and gaudy. As entertainment-Trotsky, Paulette Goddard and canard faisande-it is superb. As a serious study on a very good painter who is never as great as you estimate him, it is lame, superficial, obvious, and in some aspects, totally false...