Word: laming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Know the President." These were some of the congressional problems which confronted Administration Democrats this week as Mr. Truman prepared a message for the lame-duck 81st Congress, due to reconvene on Nov. 27. Mr. Truman showed no signs of backing away from his program. "You know the President," said one White House adviser. "He never retreats...
...wonder whether the above facts constitute "lame excuses . . . fakery had moral bankruptcy" by the HLU? Such charges are reflective of an unfortunate defensive state of mind engendered by the HYRC's embarrassment at their candidate's reluctance to appear at Harvard. How cynically can the truth be distorted to make it appear as the reverse? Roy F. Gootenberg...
...therefore no great surprise, either, when Pauline beat Gussie, 6-0, 6-3, in a 33-minute opener at the Garden. The only real departure from the advance script was that Pauline, wearing dazzling silver lame shorts and a shocking-pink sweater, nat only gave Gussie (in white pique) a tennis lesson but out-dressed her as well...
...months before the North Korean invasion. They cite the result of last May's U.N.-observed election, which had filled the National Assembly with an assortment of independents, many of whom were hostile to Rhee. Both in Korea and abroad, Rhee's opponents called him a lame-duck President, declared that his government was discredited. Other observers believe that Rhee's government was just beginning to hit its stride last June and that the Reds attacked when they did because they could not afford to tolerate the example of an effective, popular anti-Communist government in Asia...
...Imperfect Wisdom. For five hours, with the White House turning on the heat and helping to direct the strategy, Minnesota's civil-righteous young Hubert Humphrey, Tennessee's Estes Kefauver, New York's Herbert Lehman and North Carolina's lame duck Frank Graham took turns lecturing against the bill. Their arguments were a direct paraphrase of Harry Truman's message...