Word: limpness
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...MacMillans finally got around to announcing the result of the drillings: "No commercial assays were obtained." The next day, sell orders flooded the Toronto Exchange, driving the price of Windfall stock as low as 80? before it closed at $1.04. Last week, as the price settled at a limp 78?, both the Ontario Securities Commission and the provincial government began investigations of Windfall's dealings. A BLACK DAY FOR CANADIAN MINING, headlined the respected Northern Miner...
Unknown to the modern young is the pungent incense of punk and the acrid reek of exploded salute. Not even the harmless, dancing crackle and spit of lady crackers, limp in their red-gold Oriental wrappings, has lifted their Fourth-of-July hearts-not to mention the delicious danger of the thrown cherry bomb, or the thrilling thop-thop of the handheld, Roman candle...
...factory floor in Chicago. By consulting his four-volume tables, a lawyer figures the going verdict for a fractured femur as $13,500, with 5% more expectable in Chicago, which boosts the claim to $14,175. Unfortunately for the plaintiff, the factory has movies showing that he does not limp, which indicates a 27% cut, to $10,347.75. Since juries like round numbers, he asks for $10,000-and settles...
Some women do not bother to wear gloves at all, merely keep them in hand, and make the rounds clasping the evidence of their well-bred intentions like a badge. After several such wearings, most gloves begin to go limp, soon acquire wrinkles and creases no cleaner can cure. One Way Out. But, astonishingly enough, there is hardly a woman who would be caught dead without gloves. Why? Largely because of etiquette. Even as "bold" and "modern" a social arbiter as Amy Vanderbilt, who last year went so far as to sometimes permit picking up chicken bones by hand...
About 25 seedy, sleazy Congress of Racial Equality demonstrators, some of them appearing to be white beatniks, crowded in near the speakers' platform. When the introductions began, they shouted "Freedom Now" and "Jim Crow Must Go." Police moved in to shove them back, knocked several down. Others dropped limp to the ground and officers dragged them away. As the President spoke, the chant continued. His message was well suited to the unseemly scene...