Word: limped
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...brother tries to pull her back from the American and from what he fears is an incipient nervous breakdown. Yet he realizes that the old arguments will no longer work- and that the new ones are limp and equivocating. "If this were 1935," he muses, "and Sheila were my father's younger sister, the whole discussion would have been conducted in the context of sin. I can talk about it only in the context of illness...
...employee stock-ownership provision written to specifications of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Another part, liberalizing investment tax credits, would mainly benefit airlines and utilities. So finely tailored are some provisions that Senator Edward Kennedy, a reform leader, likens them to legislation for a "one-eyed, bearded man with a limp...
...Portuguese and Angolan whites fled the country. The administrative and technical gap has only partly been filled by a few trained Angolan blacks, the few whites who stayed behind and an influx of Communist helpers (mostly Cubans, Yugoslavs and East Germans). They have helped Luanda to limp along, but nonetheless most restaurants have closed for lack of food and fuel, mountains of uncollected garbage pile up, and street crime is on the increase-more because of desperation than avarice. Almost every day, the government paper Diario de Luanda rages against "reactionary elements whose antisocial behavior is sabotaging our revolution...
...Suite, The Odd Couple and The Prisoner of Second Avenue-could not possibly survive in all that gossamer. He was too deep into Broadway to travel well. His brains would scramble in the sun. The sands of Malibu would jam his typewriter if tennis elbow did not strike him limp first. Simon told a reporter eight years ago that he "would rot" if he ever left New York. "I have to stay here; I'm a fish and I was born in a dirty pond and that's how I breathe in that pond." But the pond began...
...known in the trade as "Aunty." In 1972 Aunty tried to go trendy by installing a Huntley-Brinkley-type team of two anchor men, modernizing its set and spicing up its copy with breezy backstairs language. But when the old BBC starch was gone, what was left proved limp and ITV'S inroads continued...