Word: limps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There's the Rub. In Arlington, Va., Summerfield McCarteney, 60, told police that a woman had stopped him to ask directions to Falls Church, offered to cure his limp by massaging his back, taken $265 from his wallet...
Last week a plane from Cuba took Captain Rodriguez, now a limp and broken man, to Madrid to face charges of grand larceny and high treason, which carries the maximum penalty of death...
...University will cut expenses. Each professor suspects that his program may vanish, and may students wonder which departments of the school will continue functioning. While the University delays taking any action, a good part of the school lies dormant. No one can start research projects. The libraries must limp along on inadequate budgets, and worn out equipment is not replaced. It is a poor atmosphere for academic development...
...probably the largest in publishing history (more than 1,000 titles), and 2) as a whole it comes close to proving that junior is just as well off curled up with a good TV set. There have been shovelfuls of forgettable stories about small, cuddly animals, limp sagas of family life and boneless biographies of the great and neargreat-most of them full of worthy but somewhat dull lessons, such as brush teeth regularly, don't gobble goodies when visiting, and don't talk back to mother...
...heat of the moment she absentmindedly pumped four shots into Pierre. Her small son Matthieu promptly burst into tears. She took him down to the concierge. Then she went upstairs, planning once again to kill herself. As she thought of Matthieu and another, elder son, her arm went limp and-bang-there went another slug into Pierre. The courtroom sighed in sympathy...