Word: limpness
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...boudoir-view of life ("There are no impotent men, only unskilled women, don't you think?"). Another story, The Tie from Paris, is about a middle-aged banker whose pretty young secretary tells him one day: "You've got marvelous hands-they make me go all limp." The trouble begins when the banker's wife finds lipstick on some of his handkerchiefs but it ends to everybody's satisfaction when the secretary discovers that the banker's boss has hands that make her go even limper. This time round, Author Waltari badly misses the ghostwriter...
...well as a footpath stretch across the bridge, but until last week, no passenger had ridden across since 1949. The thousands of Chinese refugees, European missionaries and businessmen who have crossed the bridge with their wives and children since then have been forced to walk, or more frequently, to limp along the footpath bearing on their weary backs or in their hands those few possessions they were able to wrench from the Communist grasp...
Mitchell's remarks denoted that he had no evidence to back his charge, and he offered none later. In Atlanta, where Bob Jones's reputation for personal integrity is even higher than his fame as a golfer, people watched Jones limp from car to office on a cane (he is crippled from a spinal injury), and wondered out loud why Stephen Mitchell was chairman of the party to which they and their grandfathers belonged...
Cullen credits most of his good luck to a disaster that struck him at the age of 18 months. A polio attack left him with a permanent limp. Always drama-minded, Bill decided that radio "was the one place that a ham like me-and, believe me, I'm a ham-could limp and still get a job." He started as an unpaid announcer at Pittsburgh's station WWSW. Within five years, he was getting $300 a week. In 1944, he headed for New York and CBS: "But I don't kid myself. All the good announcers...
Serious & Sad. Cullen underestimated TV cameramen. On Place the Face he is continuously on his feet, but few viewers are aware of his limp. Says Cullen: "To show you how good the camera work is. I've had people stop me on the street and say, 'Hey, Bill, what happened to your leg?' like it happened . over the weekend...