Word: limpness
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Both Miss Fremd and Researcher Marcia Houston, who assisted her, learned to admire Lisa greatly; during the sweltering summer days, when they both felt limp as dishrags, Lisa always managed to look as cool and beautiful as a fashion...
Detroit was not alone in its troubles. The orchestra that hard-working Conductor Izler Solomon had built in Columbus, Ohio had finally tumbled down in its eighth year, unable to raise $90,000 for its oncoming season. Baltimore and Seattle, among others, would limp through their seasons, still on the sick list. But from Portland, Ore. last week came cheering news of a remedy if not a cure...
...martens avoid traps; when walking they tried to route themselves past the doors of air-conditioned movies, where they could breath in a little coolness. The touch of a barber's hot towel, or the simple process of swallowing hot coffee, was enough to make a shirt go limp or a woman's make-up shine greasily. In the packed and airless slums, tens of thousands slept on rooftops or fire escapes. The heat seemed even more pitiless out across the farm states, where farmers often worked from sunup to sundown, sweating in the fields or jolting behind...
...bulldog-jawed, 5 ft. 10½ in. Ben Jones walks with short, mincing steps and a hint of a limp (from a football injury). But he sits a horse straighter than most men half his age. Outside Barn 15 at Churchill Downs last week, atop his stable pony, Ben hardly looked like the boss of the most efficiently run stable in U.S. racing history. There are no fancy airs about Ben Jones, from Parnell...
After the race, the great crowd seemed stunned by the impact of a Jones-trained horse winning at such odds. Ben himself, more excited than after Citation's victory last year, forgot his limp as he hotfooted it down the track to meet Ponder jogging back to the presentation stand. The 66-year-old training wizard from Parnell, Mo., a genius at getting a horse ready for one big race, had the look of a man who had fooled even himself. Said little Conn McCreary, who finished fifth aboard Halt: "When the day comes around, he makes you look...