Word: limps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...slapped the sad limp meringue on the ice cream and hardly had time to consider that putting a large round mold into a small square oven would not fail to take its toll on the dessert's overall proportions. We closed the door and prepared to wait out the three minutes at 450, but after about thirty seconds our Mr. Wizard-like curiosity overwhelmed us: ice cream in the oven? We flipped the oven door open nervously and found the meringue slipping slowly down around the knees of the melting mold. Out of the oven; onto the platter; half-eggshell...
...chest join, thus severing the spinal cord and killing the lobster instantly.") For all who think that that's all there is to it, she adds disconcertingly, "To paralyze all muscle spasms, plunge the lobster head first into ... very hot water for 5 minutes, or until lobster is limp...
...Vermont's Mount Snow, maintain well-equipped mini-hospitals at the foot of their lift lines, where doctors can X-ray and set simple fractures. But all too often good treatment stops at the bottom of a run, and injured skiers must either gamble on local physicians or limp to a distant city hospital. A Manhattan woman nearly lost the use of one leg after a Vermont hospital botched a simple break. A New York orthopedist later saved the leg with a complex operation, but only this month has the woman been able to board skis again-ten years...
...political talk show, replied, "I'm not nearly as histrionic as Franklin Delano Roosevelt was." He also distinguished his type of performance from Bob Hope's. That distinction was painfully manifest to viewers of Buckley's recent guest gig on Laugh-In, in which he matched limp quips with Rowan and Martin...
...from 30% to 50%, and more than a dozen dealerships have gone under in recent months. Where one agency had ordered 400 new cars by this time in 1969, it now orders 115. A newspaper campaign comes complete with $400 discount coupons for a new car. It brings a limp reply. A brand-new 1970 Barracuda, which would normally sell for $3,000, goes on special sale at a mere $1,495-and draws no takers. Housing is not much better off. Apartments stand vacant everywhere; in some suburbs the vacancy rate reaches 40%. Many landlords have cut rents...