Word: limps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...courtroom--which holds around 300--was filled, and betwen 75-100 persons had to be turned away. They were diverted by a pacifist-anarchist who emerged from the courthouse a few minutes after the sentencing began, announcing that "it took three policemen to carry me out. I went limp in the elevator...
What with the humiliating Congo defeat, the winter's long labor riots and the nation's economic malaise, Belgium was limp, dispirited and hardly in a mood for another round of national elections. Not even the campaign speeches of popular Paul-Henri Spaak. who quit as NATO Secretary-General to take over leadership of the Socialists, could whip up the listless crowds. Spaak's electioneering Socialists blamed Premier Gaston Eyskens and his Catholic-backed Social Christians for the Congo debacle, and attacked Eyskens' sensible but unpopular economic austerity program-price of the lost Congo- because...
...fake youthfulness on the golf course and whispers in privacy each day before the shaving mirror and the dressing table. Not merely the black statistics of murder, suicide, alcoholism and divorce betray anxiety (or that special form of anxiety which is guilt), but almost any innocent, everyday act: the limp or overhearty handshake, the second pack of cigarettes or the third martini, the forgotten appointment, the stammer in midsentence, the wasted hour before the TV set, the spanked child, the new car unpaid...
...trustees of an institution." Their lengthy speeches ranged from conventionstyle rhetoric ("it is a significant historical movement -- the wave of the future -- leading to the rise of a responsible alternative to apathy"), to downright poor taste ("We will be done with the beatniks, the puerile purveyors of pornography, the limp-wristed bent-kneed writers. . .") niks, the puerile purveyors of porno-provided by the grown-ups. George Sokolsky, a syndicated columnist who began his journalistic career as editor of a Petrograd newspaper during the Revolution received the award for journalism. Speaking quietly with emotion, he declared: "For forty years I have...
...volunteer who walks into E-3 will not see much violence, because the most violent patients are usually manic-depressive, and get excited only occasionally. I met one 20 year old girl with a quiet sense of humor, who offered me a limp hand in greeting. She seemed depressed. I was surprised when one of the volunteers told me that on his last visit to the ward she had been beating her head against the floor...