Word: laming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last spring the CRIMSON accused me editorially of a "casual blending of free enterprise, morality, religion, and salvation" in suggesting a "Free Enterprise Fund" to combat the Communistic influences at Harvard. They declined to publish my answer on the lame grounds that it would take up too much space. The real reason, I suspect, is that they feared...
Many of the geneticists who listened to the Pope noticed that his right arm seemed to be lame. The explanation: he had wrenched his right arm trying to help a hefty pilgrim from his knees. Temporarily, the Pope had switched his ring to his left hand...
MODERN artists find it easier to express passion than to praise God, and, except for Georges Rouault, they have generally chosen the easier course. But now a lame, grey, and perhaps great artist in Madrid has taken Rouault's high and lonely road. His name: Francisco Cossio. His finest achievement to date: a 20-foot-high mural (opposite) for Madrid's National Carmelite Church. While Rouault's paintings glow with almost painfully intense devotion, Cossio's masterpiece gleams cool and peaceful as a September dawn. Cossio, 54, spent three years on the mural, hopes to finish...
...Forbes as a two-year-old (for $275) from a relative, is not yet ready to declare his independence of cows. "I've been working eight years to feed my horses, now one of them is feeding me," he grants. But he adds worriedly: "A horse can go lame just standing in a stable...
...called on to explain why they signed the present armistice. Several I've talked to specifically think in terms of investigating committees demanding to know whether it is a fact that they sold out Korea. They frankly admit that complex justifications and explanations, currently acceptable, may look pretty lame in a year...