Word: limpness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With a pulled thigh muscle taped so tight he could not walk without a limp, Blodgett fought his way over 13 ft. in the pole vault, for a third place tie and one and one-half points. Princeton sopho-more Charlie Mitchell won the vault...
With the order of the day-"Go limp if police attempt to move you"-Philosopher-Pacifist Bertrand Russell, 88, laboriously and lengthily prepared for his massive, passive, sit-down demonstration in favor of unilateral British nuclear disarmament. (The new creed: "I'd rather be Red than dead ") When the great day finally came last weekend, the Gandhiose effort was a bit of a flop. When his silent horde of 3,000 arrived outside the Ministry of Defense to squat on the cold pavement, the box formation of 400 bobbies perversely refused to touch a soul. When the Russell forces...
...corruption-ridden administration. Facing political crisis, Wagner resolutely promised to answer De Sapio's challenge and to break openly with his old sponsor. After three days, though, Wagner was still hesitating-a maneuver in which he excels-and the best he had been able to manage was a limp "Yes, there is a rift." Adding to his troubles was Wagner's inability to decide on a man to fill Manhattan's borough presidency, automatically vacated when Hulan Jack was convicted and received a suspended sentence on charges of conflict of interest and conspiracy to obstruct justice. Still...
...face of Rusk's deft testimony, the Senators were soon reduced to politely limp questions, including none on Berlin or Laos. They got back quietly articulate answers that committed the Kennedy Administration to nothing. As against the late Foster Dulles' dismissal of neutralism as "an immoral and short sighted conception," Rusk argued that the U.S. should not insist that "anyone who is not with us is against us." Although committed to current policy toward Red China-"I see no prospect at this time that normal relations could be established*-Rusk added that it would be difficult to make...
Adapted from a bestselling novel and Broadway play, Suzie Wong rewinds that limp old yarn about the poor starving artist and the floozy with a heart of gold, but this time the yarn has a new kink in it: miscegenation. The twain meet in Hong Kong, and pretty soon the hero (William Holden) is so crazy about the whoroine (Nancy Kwan) that he cannot tell the difference between good and bawd, white and Wong. Race prejudice and convention pothole the road to romance, but the lovers ride out the bumps...