Word: limpness
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...Henry's limp hand." Now, did you or your reporter ever shake his hand...
...film sometimes lies limp under such feeble abracadabra, but sometimes it stands on end at a weird glimpse of real black magic. Everett Sloane, as Rita's lame and jealous husband, crawls through the picture as horribly as a spider; and Glenn Anders, as a man who madly plots his own murder, has developed a soundless laugh as chilling as a razor's edge scraped across plate glass. Orson has done a capable job with his brogue, a flashy one with the camera. But not all of his magic works. He makes a blonde out of his onetime...
...hotel and shouted: "Why, there's old Henry! He looks like a herring." Heaving round, the drunk padded through the side door into the empty lobby of Cedar Rapids' Allison Hotel. Presidential Candidate Henry Wallace came through the main door. The drunk grabbed Henry's limp hand and cheerily pumped it. Wallace gave him a sour look, yanked his hand free, and retreated to the hotel barbershop...
Before World War II, when our role in world power politics was infinitesimal as compared to today, and when the two oceans formed a reassuring barrier, the United States could afford to limp along with disorganized and duplicating intelligence systems. However, even before the nation became involved in the war, these agencies were failing. What actually happened at Pearl Harbor and in the months preceding that disaster is unclear even today, but there can be little doubt that poor intelligence contributed to it. During the war, the German breakthrough in the Ardennes is blamed largely on the fact that...
...objections to the death sentence. She said it demoralized prison personnel and made prison jobs repulsive to able people. She recalled the case of Edith Thompson, hanged 25 years ago for helping her lover dispose of her husband. Mrs. Thompson had fainted before her execution. Her limp body was dragged to the gallows. Said Mrs. Gould: "That execution was so horrible that after it, the hangman committed suicide,* one of the wardresses who was present went mad, and the chaplain had a very bad nervous breakdown; and every single person who was present left the service within a very short...