Word: limp
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Winning the Blue. A small, pale man with waning hair and a limp brought on by World War II wounds, Macleod speaks a scholar's Gaelic and a debater's English. He went about getting into politics the way he went about winning his "blue" (i.e., school letter) at Cambridge. Only fair at sports, he started a bridge club and thus won his blue (going on to become one of Britain's bridge aces in international tourneys and bridge editor for the London Sunday Times'). When he wanted to enter Parliament after the war, he contested...
Connoisseurs of fine wines are usually heavy-jowled, bloated men with pot bellies. But Rene Peroy, Harvard's fencing coach, cultivates an expert taste for wine along with a tip-top physical condition. Past sixty-five, he can fence with one student after another, leaving them limp with exhaustion, while he hardly breaks into a sweat...
...plus another (estimated) $50 million for guns, planes and tanks. In return, Mossadegh had to agree, by the terms of the Mutual Security Act, that Iran would contribute to the "defensive strength of the free world." Again Mossy balked; after some frenzied haggling the U.S. emerged with a limp victory. It won a letter from Mossadegh reaffirming Iran's adherence to the U.N. charter; on that basis he would get the $24 million. Negotiations over the military aid continued...
Bannerline (MGM) is a limp little melodrama about a brash cub reporter (Keefe Brasselle) who, to cheer up the dying days of an idealistic teacher (Lionel Barrymore), bestirs a town to clean up its gangster-ridden government. Cast inevitably as a crotchety but lovable tyrant, Actor Barrymore gets a chance to play a deathbed scene which, running intermittently through the whole picture, must be the longest on record...
Mostly, Webster pictures the radio & TV audience at its moments of greatest strain: clubbed senseless by commercials, drowned in the soap-opera flood, lacerated by thrillers, held slack-jawed and limp before the endless, banal assault on ear and eye and mind. When his characters are caught with their sets off, they exhibit every nuance of the Walter Mitty syndrome: grandmothers speak to one another with the accents of private eyes; moppets dry-gulch their parents from behind the furniture; housewives confront "their startled husbands with all the teary grandeur of John's Other Wife...