Word: limps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Yesterday morning, their anger whetted by the suspensions, students continued to man the outlawed tables. Police approached one of the leaders, Jack Weinberg, and asked for his ID card. When he refused, saying it would lead to his suspension, the officers placed him under arrest. Weinberg went limp, and when the university police carried him to a waiting patrol car, hundreds of students sat down on all sides of the vehicle, and prevented it from moving...
...keeping with the chief character, Bellow's prose is sometimes pudding-soft, mushy and too sweet; but at other times it is as good as anything he has written. In fact, where the novel does not limp, it moves majestically, as in a grimly tender description of the death of Herzog's mother. It is just that Bellow does not seem to be covering any new ground. Toward the end, Herzog reflects: "I look at myself and see chest, thighs, feet-a head. This strange organization, I know it will die. And inside -something, something, happiness . . . Something produces...
...MacMillans finally got around to announcing the result of the drillings: "No commercial assays were obtained." The next day, sell orders flooded the Toronto Exchange, driving the price of Windfall stock as low as 80? before it closed at $1.04. Last week, as the price settled at a limp 78?, both the Ontario Securities Commission and the provincial government began investigations of Windfall's dealings. A BLACK DAY FOR CANADIAN MINING, headlined the respected Northern Miner...
Unknown to the modern young is the pungent incense of punk and the acrid reek of exploded salute. Not even the harmless, dancing crackle and spit of lady crackers, limp in their red-gold Oriental wrappings, has lifted their Fourth-of-July hearts-not to mention the delicious danger of the thrown cherry bomb, or the thrilling thop-thop of the handheld, Roman candle...
...factory floor in Chicago. By consulting his four-volume tables, a lawyer figures the going verdict for a fractured femur as $13,500, with 5% more expectable in Chicago, which boosts the claim to $14,175. Unfortunately for the plaintiff, the factory has movies showing that he does not limp, which indicates a 27% cut, to $10,347.75. Since juries like round numbers, he asks for $10,000-and settles...