Word: limpness
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...correspondent went to Spain to cover the Civil War, and there he did his best reporting. His words wept at the barbarism of battle. "The com pany had gone on [toward Teruel] and this was the phase where the dead did not rate stretchers, so we lifted him, still limp and warm, to the side of the road and left him with his serious waxen face where tanks would not bother him now nor anything else and went on into town." A wounded Loyalist soldier had a "face that looked like some hill that had been fought over in muddy...
...collector and rebuilder of limp companies, California Industrialist Norton Simon owns an unrivaled record of success. From the tomato-paste base of his Hunt Foods, he has strung together an empire of two dozen corporations from publishing (McCall Corp.) to soft drinks (Canada Dry) to containers (Knox Glass). Almost every company that Simon has bought into has prospered and he has hung on to all of his major acquisitions...
...Narcotics, Why Not?, another documentary now being widely circulated, the camera focuses on a young boy as he breathes deeply from a paper bag full of airplane glue, then leans back and lets the bag drop from his limp hands; another shot shows police pulling a dazed addict from behind the wheel of a smashed automobile...
...Case still works as their West Coast scout, and after looking over the lads, he announced: "The future of this here ball club is brighter." For one thing, said Case, there is Tommy Davis, acquired from the Los Angeles Dodgers: "I saw Davis play and he didn't limp like I do." That's encouraging. On another Dodger Davis, Willie, who became a World Series anti-hero last fall with his three spectacular errors against the Orioles, Casey observed: "He drops fly balls sometimes, and at a bad time of the year...
...some $800,000). Private foundations were not enthusiastic about contributing, partly because in those Red-scare days N.S.A. was thought to be too leftwing; the House Un-American Activities Committee even planted two agents among student association delegates to the 1962 Helsinki World Youth Festival. Nevertheless, N.S.A. managed to limp along; its representatives continued to attend a series of international student rallies. Invariably, they found themselves outmaneuvered, outshouted and outfinanced by Communist student organizations that went out of their way to impress delegates from the underdeveloped, uncommitted nations of Africa, Asia and Latin America...