Word: laming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Insidious Influence. Lord Beaverbrook was not silenced. His Evening Standard retorted: "A lame reply to those who criticize Channel 9's American accent. The influence is most insidious and gives serious cause for complaint . . . The U.S. puts its views in a famous program: the Voice of America. There is no need for Sir Robert to double this role...
Since it is also a short film, the Exeter has padded the program with The History of the Cinema, a rather primitive cartoon imitating the UPA method and wit with lame success. There is also a ten-minute visit to England's Trooping of the Colours, one of the world's few surviving large scale pageants. The film is appropriately impressive and colorful...
...President gave the King an eight-piece desk set and an original Eisenhower Colorado landscape; the wealthy monarch's gift to Ike was a well-guarded secret. No secret was the King's enormous gratitude for the way Americans had opened their arms to Saud's lame little son (see below). The King himself was the richer, materially, in five pairs of eyeglasses, which he ordered after an eye examination at Walter Reed Hospital...
...Lame One." Dictator Trujillo & Co. plainly intended to let the suicide report end the affair. But the U.S., as its note last week showed, found the story hard to believe. From inside the Dominican Republic came a report that Pilot De la Maza as well as Pilot Murphy had talked. By De la Maza's story, he and Murphy together had indeed spirited a cancer patient from Miami to Ciudad Trujillo. But the mysterious passenger was not Galindez. It was, instead, one Francisco ("The Lame One") Martinez Jara, urgently wanted then and now by U.S. authorities on suspicion...
...inquiring reporter, once a bright star of U.S. journalism, today is being outglittered by a new performer: the inquiring headline writer. On the theory that no question is too complex for a headline-and no answer too lame for the text-the quiz kid rose swiftly from keyhole-peeping sheets such as Confidential (WHAT WAS PRIME MINISTER NEHRU...