Word: laming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lame Excuse...
...none of the AAU's standards. Rightfully or not, the Communist Party is a legal political group in the U.S. The Smith Act itself admits that a person can be a Communist without conspiring against the Government. And there may be tenured professors on faculties today who, for what lame reason we do not know, hold membership cards in the CP, yet neither lie nor follow the Party line in their teaching. The Communist Party in this country is not so perfectly organized that naive teachers cannot hold dormant membership without being read out. They are unfaithful Communists and politically...
...Henry James: "If ever God made a lame cat, James was the boy. Culture without perception, delicate to the verge of indelicacy . . . it all sounds to me like high middle-class life described from the angle of a natural-born valet...
...cannot reveal the identity of the real killer because his lips are sealed by the confessional. The picture develops its theme in straightforward fashion with few surprises and plot twists. Since the audience knows from the beginning who the killer is, his undoing comes about in a rather lame climax...
...position among pop-record producers. Once a week he throws open the doors of his audition room in the hope of hearing a tune that is "right" for one of his stable of singers-Johnnie Ray (Cry), Jimmy Boyd (I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus), Frankie Lame (High Noon). Jo Stafford (Jambalaya), or Clooney. In four or five hours he receives a parade of professional managers, may sample 50 or more new songs while he sits spooning yoghurt or munching hard-boiled eggs...