Word: limpness
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...breathing out oxygen. Less than ! 10% of the Northwest's old growth is still uncut, and much of this is in patches too small to be ecologically self-sustaining. In 15 years or so, enough second-growth timber will have reached marketable size to allow some logging towns to limp along. But to bridge the years till then, virtually all the old growth not in national parks would have...
...Anderson's Larry fulfills the role of a chorus, commenting lewdly on his friends' sexual endeavors. He creates a sensational send-up up of a limp-wristed flaming queen. The audience howls...
...Florida, Georgia and Alabama. Gunn had reason to feel depressed: in the middle of an acrimonious divorce, he virtually lived out of his white Buick Skylark and encountered antiabortion protests and threats nearly everywhere he practiced. Paula remembers marveling at his high spirits as he set off with a limp -- the trace of his childhood polio -- last Wednesday at about 9:10. He drove to the Pensacola Women's Medical Services in Cordova Square, a suburban shopping center tending toward dress stores, doctors' offices, delis and weight-loss clinics...
...shoe system was a large, impersonal, centralized government agency, it was not flexible enough to respond to consumer needs and only issued one style and size of shoe. While the affluent were wearing shoes that were right for them, the poor and much of the middle class had to limp along in shoes that were too big, too small or the wrong style. Only occasionally did the product suit the customer...
...music on "Your Arsenal" suffer from the same flatness. "Certain People I know" makes a limp attempt at a country western sound, proving that this child of England's industrial wasteland is simply not cut out to headline at the Grand Ol' Opry. Most of the other tracks are just folkish filler. The only entertaining thing about the aimless, boring "We Hate it When Our Friends Succeed" is the title. It's mystery how he's managed to eke a hit out of the meager, colorless tune...