Word: limpness
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...father asking him if he could bring Andrei Gromyko back to her as a present. Delegate Davies couldn't, but Britain's irrepressible Columnist Nat Gubbins promptly seized on the idea as perfect punishment for the man whose evasive doubletalk had left the West's representatives limp with frustration. Last week in his Sunday Express column, Gubbins gave a terrifying picture of what Sally might do to Gromyko in a few minutes' chat...
Eighteen months ago, little Donald Morton was toddling around his father's farm near Archerwill, Saskatchewan like any other healthy two-year-old. Then he developed a limp. Arthur Morton took his son to the local doctor for treatment, but the limp grew worse. The child's arms and legs lost their chubby firmness. His father saw him "grab at things and miss them by inches. He couldn't handle his toys and he'd run into the furniture and knock things over...
When the Princeton 150-pound varsity shell neared the quarter mile mark, the number two man, Jim Neff, caught a crab and was catapulted out of his seat into the Charles. The Tigers managed to limp in sixth ahead of Cornell, nonetheless...
...gone prepared to wrestle with obscurities and be buffeted by lines of lofty poetic significance, but Mr. Phelps had imposed on us too much. If we had grasped the deep meaning of every symbol and responded fully to every profound line in his play we would have been left limp from catharsis, unable to leave the theatre. As it was we walked out, perplexed...
...touring Kefauver committee last week made its triumphant return to Washington, leaving behind it a rash of probes, citizen crime investigations, red faced politicians, some civic firings, and a limp, but still eager, audience. It was a fortnight that had rocked the nation. In Chicago, hardy viewers shifted from foot to foot in 15° weather as they watched the hearings through TV-store windows. In Minneapolis, bars and restaurants with TV sets were thronged even in the mornings. In New York, the Consolidated Edison Co. had to switch on an extra generator to carry the daytime load...