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Word: laming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mother once said of him: "He began to talk when he was nine months old and he's been talking ever since." But last week Senator Pepper was not talking very much. Democratic voters in Florida's primary had made him the 81st Congress' first lame duck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORIDA: First Lame Duck | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

...exhibition catalogue, Museum Director of Painting and Sculpture Andrew Ritchie collared Demuth with a string of adjectives: "Elegant, witty, frivolous, dandified, shy, gentle, kind, amusing." The painter was also lame, and long ill with the diabetes which killed him at 52. A bit of a bohemian in his excursions to Greenwich Village and Montparnasse, he never stayed away from Lancaster long. Bachelor Demuth was "sheltered as a child and as a man," wrote Ritchie, "by an extraordinarily robust mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: With a Teaspoon | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

With three minutes to go, Rockwell penetrated a Bruin freeze and sank a driving lay-up to put the varsity ahead, 48 to 47. The varsity then sank a foul and capitalized on the lame duck two minute rule to work into its own freeze, a nicely executed fast criss cross...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: Quintet Edges Brown by One Point | 1/17/1950 | See Source »

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