Word: limpness
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...cash flow problem for his final election party. In contrast to his earlier func- tions, where the alcohol and food flowedfreely, this final gathering featured a cash bar,and the food offerings featured a cash bar, andthe food offerings were limited to cheese,crackers and some limp potato chips...
Even physicists fall in love. If I were casting her in a movie, I would pick someone dark and sultry like Marlee Matlin, a little mysterious with an angry, damaged air. She has a slight limp -- do we know why? A childhood accident? Family tragedy? Does he find it sexy, affecting? Mileva Maric was a dark- haired Serbian woman who dreamed of being a physicist, a pre-feminist fighter, 21 when she entered the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. There she met Albert Einstein, a 17-year-old bohemian with thick curly hair and dark, warm eyes, bedroom...
After fractious primaries, Democrats will limp into the general election having spent most of their money defeating each other. There they will face tanned, rested and ready Republicans sitting atop huge, unused campaign treasuries. Ahead in the main arena for Richards is West Texas oil millionaire Clayton Williams, who breezed to the Republican nomination in an easy March primary. In California, G.O.P. candidate (and U.S. Senator) Pete Wilson is lying in wait, while Democrats Attorney General John Van de Kamp and former San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein have at each other. Among Florida's Democrats, former Senator Lawton Chiles...
...given the sweeping transformations under way, these measures seem limp. Such a step-by-step approach would be, at best, yet another example of the -- dare one say timid? -- incrementalism on arms control and trade that has marked Soviet-American relations for four decades. As Bush himself says, the opportunity is historic. The idea that the Warsaw Pact would launch a land invasion of Western Europe, which is what most of NATO expenditures are designed to prevent, has become nearly inconceivable. "It may be time to abandon incrementalism for a leapfrog approach, to see if we can really make...
...them. And they don't cotton to being thought of as sissies. Somehow, the state highway commission failed to take that into account when it announced that the license plates on Texas' 13.5 million vehicles would henceforth carry not only a border of -- ugh! -- baby blue but also a limp slogan, THE FRIENDSHIP STATE...