Word: limpness
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...Ferrari picked up nine points toward the 1962 manufacturers' world championship. Driving in the faster sports-car class, California's Dan Gurney, a three-year Grand Prix veteran, wound up the overall winner. He averaged 104 m.p.h. in a low-slung Lotus, managed to limp over the line on his starter motor when his engine quit 200 yds. from the finish...
...testimony, Carlino explained his relationship with Lancer-in terms that sometimes seemed limp. The association, he said, had begun when Lancer, then primarily a swimming-pool manufacturer, hired his law firm at a $500 monthly retainer; later, although he held no Lancer stock, Carlino was made a member of the board. In the spring of 1961, Carlino was informed that Lancer was going to start making shelters. By his own admission, he realized that he might have a conflict-of-interest problem because "the state might ultimately be involved in some legislation involving home fallout shelters." Carlino said he telephoned...
...beautiful it was," he laments, "what a shame." He still keeps a lock of hair in an envelope), grew a thick mustache and blackened it with mascara, put on horn-rimmed glasses, stuffed a lump of metal in his right boot to force a limp and affected a severe facial...
...Limp Spirit. To round up his personal critics' circle, Merrick and Pressagent Harvey Sabinson used telephone directories and similar sources. They took the shadow critics to the show, and Merrick claimed that all of them liked it. The shades were fed and pampered at Sardi's and the Plaza. "We all worked on their statements," says Pressagent Sabinson...
...daily critics when they reviewed Subways Are for Sleeping was three negatives (Kerr, Taubman, and John McClain of the Journal-American) against three positives (Watts, Chapman, and Robert Coleman of the Mirror), with the World-Telegram's Norman Nadel hanging in the air. Said the real Kerr: "Limp." Quoth the real Taubman: "Stumbles as if suffering from somnambulism...dull and vapid...