Word: laming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Radcliffe's lame duck Student Council made a farewell gesture yesterday afternoon, in recommending that group tutorial be made available to all group four students, and to group five students who are interested...
...Another lame duck from the old 81st Congress combed the birdshot from his feathers last week and limped back into action. South Dakota's Republican Chan Gurney, who lost his Senate seat to Isolationist Francis Case in a primary election last spring, won his reward for loyal support of Administration defense programs on the Armed Services Committee. The reward: a presidential appointment to fill out the remaining 22 months of a vacant seat on the Civil Aeronautics Board. Salary: $15,000 a year...
...Vanderbilt, show money was small consolation: in making her final bid, Bed Roses, top two-year-old filly of 1949 pulled up lame with a spread hoof. If she had been able to finish on four good legs instead of three and a heart, she might have...
...first two lame ducks from the old 81st Congress limped down off Capitol Hill last week and slid into jobs that fitted them as neatly as their pinfeathers...
...kind of days he was putting in. Last week he received scores of callers, many of them retiring lame-duck Congressmen. One evening, heavily guarded by Secret Service men, he rode up to Capitol Hill for a dinner honoring two key Democrats who had been defeated at the polls:Majority Leader Scott Lucas of Illinois and Party Whip Francis Myers of Pennsylvania. "I have learned," Harry Truman told the assembled lame ducks, "that if you stick around in public life long enough, defeat is certain...