Word: limper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...face of Czechoslovakia's steadily sagging economy and its even limper national morale, Communist Party Boss Gustav Husak last week decided that the time was ripe for a good pep talk. Before 700 workers at the Skoda auto works in Pilsen, he admitted: "Quite a lot of people are falling into some sort of depression. They are spreading panicky moods, as if our state and all of our society were facing some sort of bankruptcy from which there is no way out." Husak thereupon assured his listeners that he would be better for them than either of his predecessors...
Excited witnesses reported that the killer limped as he ran to the getaway car, and police leaped to the conclusion that this might well be the work of the notorious S.A.O. terrorist, George Watin, nicknamed "The Limper." Whetting their suspicions was the discovery in Lafond's files of letters from the S.A.O. a year ago, demanding "voluntary contributions" to support the terrorist plots against Charles de Gaulle and other "enemies" of their movement. The wealthy banker had refused to cooperate...
...wild rhetoric of the defendants could not conceal the implacable determination to kill. La Gloire summons French men in many directions. Five of the gunmen who took part in the Petit-Clamart ambush are still at large, including the most dangerous of all, Georges Watin, 39. nicknamed Boiteux (The Limper), who the police say was also the brains behind the Ecole Militaire plot. A French Cabinet minister, emerging from a meeting at the Elysée Palace last week, said worriedly to a friend: "Never has De Gaulle's life been in such danger...