Word: limpness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...began. He was joking, but that was the end of the joke. Lindsay's Lancers played touch like a varsity of muggers. His Honor himself drew 15 yds. for nearly throttling the opposition quarterback, one radio writer landed in the hospital with a broken knee, and several others limped home with scars and loosened teeth. Lindsay, however, left the field without so much as a limp handshake...
Watching TV during the last few weeks, Americans saw the spectacle of a half circle of rumpled men on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee-Chairman William Fulbright peering over his spectacles like a country-store sage, Oregon's Wayne Morse flailing a limp arm, Vermont's George Aiken beaming avuncularly for the cameras-all of them questioning or baiting Administration witnesses and, through the witnesses, Lyndon Johnson. In the end only five Senators voted against tabling a motion rescinding the 1964 Tonkin Gulf resolution, which had authorized the President to take all necessary action in Southeast Asia...
...every oddball in the nonEstablishment U.S. of the past generation-feminists, Wobblies, Free Silver men, free-love ladies, anarchists, proto-bolsheviks, pacifists, radicals, populists, vegetarians, ragged Utopians, prophets without portfolio and plain cranks. His record makes the current anti-Establishment of beatnik non-opters seem limp and goofy. " 'Free love, free liquor, free Mooney,' proclaimed the banners of my youth,"* Rexroth says happily today. He has produced a splendid piece of Americana of a kind that defies academic research; it could only have been told by a survivor...
...heart disease. His condition could not have been helped by his long-run performance as a public scold and Malaprop, whose every appearance was good for scatology and demonology, cracks and castigations, all delivered in a beery Kerry brogue that grew richer year by year. He walked with a limp that he attributed to an English bullet-actually, it was caused by a congenital hip condition later corrected by an operation- and called himself an "elder statesman among public monsters." Mike bluffed so often about striking the city, twinkled so brightly on television as labor's jolly showman, that...
Died. Herbert Marshall, 75, British-born cinemactor, who lost his right leg in World War I, learned to walk with only the barest limp on an artificial limb, then emigrated to the U.S. and became the very model of a Hollywood Briton in all the stereotypes from charming rake (Trouble in Paradise) to losing-but-noble lover (Accent on Youth); apparently of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills, Calif...