Word: limpness
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...chronic afflictions of the U.S. economy is the limp state of the nation's textile industry. U.S. textile production is growing at only one-third the rate of manufacturing output as a whole; since 1948, textile companies have closed down more than 800 mills employing 250,000 people. Many of the industry's ills stem from obsolete equipment and the loss of markets to plastics, paper and synthetic fibers, but most textile makers choose to blame their troubles primarily on foreign competition and to clamor for protective quotas. Two months ago, when President Kennedy unveiled a vaguely worded...
...paddy wagon whose walls were padded with foam rubber for his own protection, lock him up overnight, release him with a lecture in the morning. One remedial variation: tape-recording his drunken expostulations, then playing the tape back to his glowering wife when she came to pick up the limp tiger next...
...inauguration speech, creating "a new world of law" is not a matter for 100 days, or even 1,000. True to his plea that day-"Let us begin"-the President inaugurated in Washington an era with a quicker pace, a faster pulse. But in a week of limp response to Soviet triumph, it was unfortunately clear that there are some well-worn ruts along the road to the New Frontier...
...courtroom--which holds around 300--was filled, and betwen 75-100 persons had to be turned away. They were diverted by a pacifist-anarchist who emerged from the courthouse a few minutes after the sentencing began, announcing that "it took three policemen to carry me out. I went limp in the elevator...
What with the humiliating Congo defeat, the winter's long labor riots and the nation's economic malaise, Belgium was limp, dispirited and hardly in a mood for another round of national elections. Not even the campaign speeches of popular Paul-Henri Spaak. who quit as NATO Secretary-General to take over leadership of the Socialists, could whip up the listless crowds. Spaak's electioneering Socialists blamed Premier Gaston Eyskens and his Catholic-backed Social Christians for the Congo debacle, and attacked Eyskens' sensible but unpopular economic austerity program-price of the lost Congo- because...