Word: limps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eyes fixed on the ground and thick arms hanging limp at his sides, he stepped from the mound and shuffled toward the shadowed dugout, looking for all the world like a dejected pitcher who had just been shelled out of a crucial game. Only when his teammates swarmed about to pat his back and the Independence Day crowd of 74,246 at Yankee Stadium* cut loose with a tumultuous roar did a faint grin flicker across the lips of Edward ("Whitey") Ford, the New York Yankees' crafty southpaw pitcher. Whitey Ford had just won his ninth straight game...
...most part in keeping his drama sober, although now and then he throws in a few peepshots for the skin trade. But his effort to be earnest has unstrung the tautness with which he filmed Diabolique and Wages of Fear. For its last half hour, Truth is as limp as old lettuce...
...chronic afflictions of the U.S. economy is the limp state of the nation's textile industry. U.S. textile production is growing at only one-third the rate of manufacturing output as a whole; since 1948, textile companies have closed down more than 800 mills employing 250,000 people. Many of the industry's ills stem from obsolete equipment and the loss of markets to plastics, paper and synthetic fibers, but most textile makers choose to blame their troubles primarily on foreign competition and to clamor for protective quotas. Two months ago, when President Kennedy unveiled a vaguely worded...
...paddy wagon whose walls were padded with foam rubber for his own protection, lock him up overnight, release him with a lecture in the morning. One remedial variation: tape-recording his drunken expostulations, then playing the tape back to his glowering wife when she came to pick up the limp tiger next...
...inauguration speech, creating "a new world of law" is not a matter for 100 days, or even 1,000. True to his plea that day-"Let us begin"-the President inaugurated in Washington an era with a quicker pace, a faster pulse. But in a week of limp response to Soviet triumph, it was unfortunately clear that there are some well-worn ruts along the road to the New Frontier...