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Word: limps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Times's persistent Chief European Correspondent Cyrus L. Sulzberger reported, from a "completely reliable source," that Protocol M was a forgery. The British government, which in January had stoutly asserted "[we] believe this document to be genuine," responded to Sulzberger's report with a limp and embarrassed "no comment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROPAGANDA: In the Era of the Big Lie | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

...graduate student who couldn't walk because of a mutilated hip bone is walking now, and with hardly a limp...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rehabilitation Program Boon to Wounded Vets | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

...hottest-tempered editors -by name Max Corre. A reader once tried to see Editor Corre when he was too busy to be seen. When the caller just stood there, the editor screamed, "Go away!" then knocked him cold. Staffers dragged the limp form to an elevator; Editor Max Corre shrugged, muttered, and went on with his work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Where Is the Tra-La-Lo? | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

...have to be to get into the Algoa Reformatory near Jefferson City, a place for even tougher guys? As the words grew angrier, one of the boys grabbed Rolland Barton, 15, from behind, crooked one arm around his neck and held on for ten minutes. When the body grew limp, he and the third boy tossed it on the bunk, tore strips from a blanket and cinched them around their victim's neck to finish the job. In a final fury they showered blows on the unconscious body. It was not necessary. Rolland Barton was dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSOURI: How Tough? | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

Everything thereafter is sheer anticlimax, as a limp audience is held spell-bound in its seats, asphyxiated by what is without a doubt the worst in a long and dubious series of "Road" vehicles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 1/8/1948 | See Source »

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