Word: limpingly
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...Stephenson, who practiced for the first time this week on Wednesday, was suited up yesterday, but his pronounced limp indicated he would not be in shape to see much action Saturday. Halfback Scott Harshbarger had a fairly good session, however, and Yovicsin is hopeful he will be ready in time. Harshbarger reinjured his troublesome knee against Brown...
Last week against the unbeaten Washington Redskins, the Giants' bald eagle put on a display that left the fans in Yankee Stadium limp with ecstasy. When the Giant running game crumbled against a Washington line averaging 255 Ibs. per man, Yat filled the air with footballs, completed 27 of 39 passes for 505 yds. and seven touchdowns-tying an N.F.L. touchdown record set 19 years ago by the Chicago Bears' Sid Luckman. Then, with the game on ice 49-34 late in the fourth quarter, Tittle passed up a chance to try for a record-breaking eighth touchdown...
...Latin Americans rose to speak and vote, U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk looked squarely at each ambassador. Said Guatemala's Carlos Urrutia Aparicio: "This is no hour for limp diapers and half-measures-we move now for history." One by one, 19 nations voted "aye" to the resolution. Only little Uruguay, lacking instructions from home, abstained. And when the word came from Montevideo, Uruguay made it unanimous...
...proclamation" addressed to Meredith. To "preserve the peace, dignity and tranquillity" of the state, rumbled Barnett, "I hereby finally deny you admission to the University of Mississippi." The palaver went on for a while longer, with Doar getting more and more plaintive. Finally, he made one last, limp try. "Do you refuse to permit us to come in the door?" he asked...
...villain of the piece is a mousy impoverished nobleman (Marcello Mastroianni), living on heirlooms in the last unrented rooms of the family palace. He spends most of his time wearily dodging his wife, diligently troweling pomatum on his girlish Sicilian ringlets, meticulously adjusting his hair net, nervously encouraging a limp black mustache that seems to be made of dyed spaghetti. At every opportunity he examines his mirror with watery eyes and murmurs to himself contentedly, "No doubt about it, I am an impressive type...