Word: limpness
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...Singer Pat Boone's show, where Guest Bea Lillie was introduced as "the imitable." Bea showed plenty of mileage for an older model: she poked her thimble nose through big fluttering fans, slipped off the piano a time or two, tripped over her long chiffon scarf. With limp, well-scrubbed adoration, Pat said: "You sure deserve the reputation you have," to which worldly-wise Bea replied: "Thanks-I think." Before she got hopelessly boxed in a square dance, Comedienne Lillie, 59, and Singer Boone, 23, did a spritely spoof of country music called I Got Tears in My Ears...
...height and 36 ft. in breadth and contains some 200 individual carved figures. The greatest labor and most consummate skill were obviously lavished on the shrine, or central panel (see color page). There at the center of the drama is the dying Virgin Mary, falling with limp hands into the anguished arms of the attending St. James. The two figures, carved from one massive block of wood, have been called "one of the most lyrical compositions of the late Middle Ages...
...basis of school-age population. Last week a compromise measure ($1.5 billion over five years on the combined basis of need and school-age population) reached the House floor for action. But it was already clear that enthusiasm for the bill in both parties had gone limp. One reason: most states found themselves able to finance their own expanded school-building programs, neither needed nor wanted federal aid (TIME...
...told, the book is the work of a rebel against both the limp cliches of romance and the inverse pieties of atheism...
...approach. A T-33 jet trainer went aloft, slowed near to stalling speed as the pilot tried to lift Flugum with his wing so the crewmen aboard the C-123 would have an easier time of it. The trick failed, possibly because by this time the paratrooper was hanging limp and apparently unconscious...