Word: limps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shoved a hypodermic into his left arm. Adin soon lost consciousness, and was driven across the state line to Philhaven, another Mennonite mental hospital in Lebanon, Pa. No outsider might have known anything about it if a passerby had not chanced to see Adin's brethren loading his limp body into the station wagon. Several days later, he got around to telling the district attorney. Authorities established that Adin was missing, and ran him to earth at Philhaven.The hospital agreed to release Adin. Two non-Mennonite doctors examined him and found no reason for his confinement...
...DiMaggio, Martha Raye, Dorothy Kilgallen) who did nothing much but stand around being celebrities. But the singers worked to good effect: Lola Fisher, understudy for Julie (My Fair Lady) Andrews, singing I Could Have Danced All Night as if she could have; Perry Como's cool, limp delivery of new lyrics to Debussy's Claire de Lune...
...team trainer gets a workout helping padded giants collect their wits or their wind after a particularly savage block. Practice, after all, cannot be stopped just because a first-string tackle has staggered out of the huddle, rag-doll limp, his eyes rolling in his head. Says Rose Bowl Hero Kaiser: "You see a guy out in a canoe on Red Cedar River with his girl and a blanket and you wonder what you're doing it for. But other times you get out there feeling good and you just plain want to butt heads...
...Kefauver handshake has deservedly become a national monument. It is not bone-crushing, or even firm. It is limp but not clammy. An inward turn of the wrist prevents pressure that would later cause aches and pains. Unlike Adlai Stevenson, Kefauver does not chatter as he shakes; he utters one friendly sentence and reaches for the next hand. As he shakes with his right hand, he applies a light pressure with his left on his well-wisher's right elbow, thus keeping the line moving. When someone launches an extended conversation, Kefauver seems to give undivided attention...
...that it takes greater imagination and patience to captivate a customer than to clobber him. Even David Ogilvy, who dreamed up the Hathaway Shirt and Schweppes campaigns, was unable to work out a successful offbeat formula for Rinso. At times the determinedly soft-sell ads turn out merely limp. Nevertheless, some of the loudest drumbeaters in U.S. advertising have learned lessons from the velvet-voiced sophisticates. The work of top artists and crack color photographers is being used to a far greater extent than ten years ago-if only to dramatize the why-buy copy underneath. Black, blustering headlines...