Word: limps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Everybody knows these players, son. This is the All-Star game. See that old fellow with the funny crouch? That's Stan Musial. The one with the frown is Roger Marls; the right fielder with the limp is Mickey Mantle. And that fellon-whose cap keeps falling off-that's Willie Mays. See how easy it is?" "Daddy, who's on third?" "Here's 50? son, Go buy a program...
...comprising a cosmos of three parts: Limbo, Purgatory, and Paradise. Limbo is inhabited by "the educational vagrants, the intellectual pagans, the good but academically unsanctified." "Many of the institutions here are churchsponsored and have fewer than 500 students. Their presidents treat them as personal properties, and they have limp faculties substantially padded out with incompetent women. "Nowhere else... is mediocrity so tolerated and is the mixture of morals, abilities, discipline, professions, and practices more unhappy." Eble does not shirk from citing some of these institutions by name...
...nearby Preeceville, was told that both were on vacation. A nurse at the Preeceville Hospital told him to take the baby to Yorkton, 91 miles away. On the road, says Derhousoff, "I began to realize it was a race with death." Three miles from Yorkton, the baby went limp in his mother's arms. Derhousoff tried mouth-to-mouth breathing, but the baby was dead on arrival at the hospital...
...talking as if they would like to force a fall election, but few political observers at the moment share their conviction that the results would be much different. Canada, a nation still in economic difficulty despite its recent devaluation of the dollar to 92½?, seems destined to limp along as best it can with a government lacking a parliamentary majority...
...that the President has not canceled because of hard reporting by our greatly respected staff or because of the critical nature of our editorial page . . . We hope the President will instruct his assistants to renew the White House subscriptions. And soon." If not, added the Trib later, it would limp along with its other Washington subscribers-notably the U.S. Information Agency (94 copies), the State Department (20), Secretary of State Rusk and the Attorney General (one each...