Word: laming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week, Milwaukee's Dr. Walter P. Blount told the 16th annual meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons about a new method of treating lame children. Shy, intense Dr. Blount, 48, was the hit of the convention. So many doctors were jotting down notes that the crowded green and gold grand ballroom of Chicago's Palmer House looked like a classroom. Dr. Blount's method: using stainless steel staples with ¾ inch prongs to retard growth of the longer...
Garfield and Polonsky, who worked together on the successful Body and Soul, deal with an awesome quota of evil in Force of Evil, but the lame techniques that are tried in the film take away most of its force...
...addition to the Administration would be Washington's lame-duck Governor Mon C. Wallgren, who had sat right behind Harry Truman in the Senate. The word was that the President would employ Wallgren as a liaison man between the White House and his old friends in Congress...
...State Secrets. There was much coming & going. Vice President-elect Alben Barkley departed after spending almost a week. No President and Vice President, said Harry Truman, ever understood each other so perfectly. Mon C. Wallgren, an old crony from the Senate and now the lame-duck Governor of Washington, arrived and gave newsmen an exhibition of his skill at billiards (he was national amateur 18.2 balkline champion in 1929). Air Secretary W. Stuart Symington, whose help in the presidential campaign had been negligible and whose fate now was the secret of Mr. Truman, came & went...
...accepted the calculated risk of a German attack so that the troops and supplies released could be used in attacks elsewhere. Yet he admits that intelligence reports had shown a German buildup there, and that nothing was done to offset it. Ike's own explanation seems a little lame: "This type of report is always coming from one portion or another of a front. The commander who took counsel only of all the gloomy intelligence estimates would never win a battle; he would forever be sitting, fearfully waiting for the predicted catastrophes...