Word: limps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whirlwind fashion passed unanimously a resolution extending the draft until July i. Within 30 minutes this expedient, conceived in haste, had reached the House. The lower chamber, not to be stampeded, considered qualifying amendments right up to this week's deadline. But somehow, the draft would limp along a while longer...
Only Bette Davis, by sincere overacting, gets this piece going at all; the rest of the cast is about as interesting as wet wash. A limp example: the uncle (Charlie Ruggles) who continually maunders, "Is there anything I can do?" Many cinemaddicts may yearn to snarl, "Yes. go away...
...week's big meal (Sunday dinner) a British housewife can pool her family's meat ration (25? worth per person) for a roast, served with potatoes, limp lettuce, cauliflower or cabbage, and steamed pudding. But dinner for the rest of the week must be leaner. Sample menus...
...fell behind the Nazi lines, and the Germans, too busy retreating to tend to him, let his bad leg get worse. When U.S. Army doctors reached him, they screwed a three-inch silver plate in just above the knee, and patched him up so that he didn't limp. But when he got back to college last January, Ohio State's swimming coach Mike Peppe told him he would never dive the way he used to-taking off from the left foot. Anderson decided to become right-footed...
...Pelican about right except for the second line, where the worst limp is. That line should read...