Word: limpness
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...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...
Copland finds that he does his best work after dinner, keeping at it until about 2 a.m. He has no plans for a new opera to follow The Tender Land, the rather limp work premiered in 1954. "Opera," says Copland, "eats up three years of your time; then everything's decided in one night." His work in progress: a chamber piece for nine solo strings. The orchestration was obvious, says Copland, from the moment "I got the material"-and he points gravely to the ceiling, to show that it was a gift from above...
After the game, Neal, still chasing around the field, cornered a dejected Charlie Ravenel and a jubilant Tom Singleton to hear Neal tell what great competitors they were. The game but limp Crimson quarterback, with tears in his eyes, shook hands with Singleton, the Yale whom he had bettered as a freshman, sophomore, and junior. Only in his last appearance when running far below full speed because of a knee injury did Ravenel lose to his Yale counterpart. Although lame, Ravenel still stole the show from Singleton, who has played well in each of the four rivalries...