Word: limpness
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...many students, because it started during lunch hours, the blackout meant fumbling with the salad bar. However, Benjamin Walcott, assistant director of food services, said, "We were able to limp through. Fortunately it was a soup and sandwich day." Walcott added, "We were able to feed everybody"--but they were unable to serve any more fried cauliflower once the outage began...
...fair defaulted on a $40 million bank loan by failing to make its $450,000 monthly interest payment. The festival on the levee has no chance of breaking even, but New Orleans has Beleaguered exposition agreed to postpone collecting city taxes from the exposition to enable the fair to limp to its scheduled closing date, Nov. 11, instead of folding early...
...operatic actors, but even his persuasive characterization of Calaf, the unknown prince who overcomes the ice princess's sexual misanthropy, could not disguise the fact that the part lies uncomfortably high for him. In the pit, Conductor Cohn Davis, leading the opera for the first time, delivered a limp, unidiomatic account of the score that reduced its most thrilling moments to polenta...
...game brought to a satisfying end a year that saw the team's fortunes turn around after a dismal start. Although admittedly outclassed in its early-season contests at national powers Penn. Johns Hopkins and Syracuse, the Crimson was still disappointed to limp out to a 2-4 start...
...walk outside. Katherine Jackson pulls up in a car and gets out with several packages. We follow her in. She is about 5 ft. 4 in. and is wearing a blue pantsuit and a red blouse with a tie at the neck. She walks with a slight limp (she had polio as a baby). Her hair is black and rolls to the shoulders. Her skin is smooth and creamy brown like Michael's. Jackson tells her it would be good for her to have an interview with me. She says, "Oh, Joe, I don't want...