Word: laming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appointed day was bleak and drizzly. Only 2,700 people turned out, and they included few notables. Georgia's truculent Herman Talmadge and Mississippi's Fielding Wright, a lame duck, were the only governors present. Other than Byrd, there were no Senators...
...Selb, where the train, with 108 people aboard, had ended its escapade. The leaflets carried pictures of Konvalinka, the train, and a group of 18 of the 31 Czechs who did not go back to Czechoslovakia. They also carried a message from Konvalinka scotching the Reds' late, lame explanation that the train had been "kidnaped by U.S agents." Wrote Konvalinka: "My countrymen, I beg you not to believe Americans were involved. It is just one more of the many lies . . . No, there were no terrorists, no secret foreign plot. The only terrorists are the Communists; the only foreigners...
...Coyo owes this world few debts: his mulatto father is a lame hunchback, his Hindu-Chinese mother "a female monster with a squint." The family, which lives in the Martinique port of St. Pierre, is forever poor, and to buy the canoe he desperately wants, Ti-Coyo dives for coins whenever the liners pull in. But the competition is terrific; dozens of strapping Negro divers leave only small change for little fellows like Ti-Coyo. How, wonders the boy, can he liquidate his competition...
...first few hours, all the Administration could do in rebuttal was to produce the lame statement-put out by the Pen tagon-that the President, in relieving MacArthur, had acted on the "unanimous recommendations" of his civilian and military advisers, including the Joint Chiefs, a denial which did not meet what MacArthur had charged...
Figaro frankly admitted that it had not checked either. Its excuse was that the Doussinague memoirs had been published a year ago, that the State Department knew of the letter, and yet no U.S. official had bothered to brand it a fake. The State Department's lame excuse: the memoirs had not been brought to the attention of anyone "in authority." But none of these excuses absolved the Hearst papers for failure to question their story before printing...