Word: laming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After Botsford walked, Dick Fisher hit a towering drive to right which should have gone for a home run. But the lame-legged left fielder was knocked off stride by Penn catcher Bill Schuck, and he missed the plate. The relay reached home in time to tag out Fisher before he could retrace his steps...
...snapped: "Fall out in two minutes." The men-mostly 17-and 18-year-olds-grabbed for their caps and fatigue jackets, scrambled for the door, formed outside the barracks. Lean, usually soft-spoken Matt McKeon, 31, rapped out a crisp command and, using a broomstick for support on his lame side, hobbled off briskly into the moonless South Carolina night. The 74 boots of Platoon 71 followed him toward the salt tidal marshes of Parris Island, where death was waiting...
...women in Summer and Smoke are on the whole competent, but the men are lame, and the result is a limping pace. The superiority of the women is partially because Williams' hysterical females are naturally rich roles. Alma Winemiller, the sexually-repressed daughter of a prurient minister, is certainly a ready-made vehicle for fine acting, and Georgia Boyko fills the part admirably. Simultaneously repulsing and desiring the advances of young Dr. John Buchanan, Miss Boyko portrays her hysteria with a certain delicacy and restraint which make her character both distinctive and convincing. When she is severe with her mother...
...Richard's elder brother Edward IV. The camera peers at the proceedings past a huge head of glossy black hair. The head turns, and suddenly a long, coldly intellectual face stares straight at the spectator with an eye that catches him like a fishhook. This is Richard-lame leg, hunchback, "weerish withered arme" and all-and he is a frightening man indeed. A minute later the moviegoer is alone with the monster. "Why," he confides, as the thin lip writhes with an impish humor, "I can smile, and murder while I smile / . . . And wet my cheeks with artificial tears...
Natty Faith Healer Roberts stormed up and down his platform calling on the halt and lame to come forward. But adverse publicity kept the crowds small (5,000 in a tent that holds 14,000) and the contributions even smaller. Last week Healer Roberts moved on to Melbourne. His stated quota: 1,000,000 conversions before next July...