Word: limps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was much hilarity in the ranks, as the students were dragged the gauntlet down the long corridors to the stairwell. Very few of them struggled or resisted in any way save going limp, but they were deliberately hauled down the stairs on their backs and tailbones, arms and wrists were twisted, hair and ears pulled--all to the immense amusement of the Oakland police. And lest anyone think I exaggerate, listen to the cops themselves...
...more whipped cream for the Jello. Some will go on at great length about the state of their health, or last summer's trip to Europe. Their dauntlessness in the presence of the Mother Superior often springs from seniority. Even the necessity of facing them over rows of cold limp broccoli does not diminish the pleasure of verbal contact with these fine motherly women...
Then, on orders from Governor Pat Brown, 400 policemen swept into the building. The students sprawling over the littered floors offered no defiance. They went limp, and for the next 13 hours police dragged them along hall ways, pushed them into elevators or bumped them down stairs, and shoved them into buses backed up at the rear entrance. "This is wonderful, wonderful!" shouted Protest Leader Mario Savio, 21, a red-haired philosophy student, just before police took him away. Girls were carted off to the city jails; boys were hauled to the Santa Rita prison farm, where tough criminals...
Should disaster threaten in spite of all precautions, try to relax, go limp and let yourself fall gently. However, Dr. Manson admits that such sang-froid "takes practice...
...main target was a balding bandy-legged end named Knute Kenneth Rockne, who at 5 ft. 8 in. and 145 lbs. was probably the smallest man on the field. Army defenders could not help admiring Rockne's courage; the game had barely started before he was limping noticeably. Late in the first period, with the ball on the Army 30 Dorais dropped back to pass. Nobody noticed Rockne, hobbling painfully down the sideline. Suddenly, the limp disappeared; he was running full tilt toward the Army goal, reaching up for the pass. Touchdown! Before the long afternoon was over, Notre Dame...