Word: limps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sniffer-planes affair leaped into public attention last month with an article in the satirical weekly Le Canard Enchaine. The Mitterrand government, under fire for its management of the limp French economy, suddenly found itself in a position to lambaste the previous administration, led by Valery Giscard d'Estaing. But even before Mitterrand could capitalize on the disclosure, Giscard went on national television to deny any wrongdoing. He implied that others, notably his Premier, Raymond Barre, were more directly involved. Barre, in response, insisted that the affair had to remain shrouded in secrecy "for defense reasons...
With these experts' connivance, Watson adopted a new identity based on false documents and stationery filched from New York City's Metropolitan Museum. To help people in the art world remember him easily, Watson flaunted a quirky bow tie and cultivated a limp by wearing an excruciatingly tight pair of Italian shoes...
...fact of the matter is that the President is playing a down limp game with words. He appeals to one's "understanding," to distract the listener from what's going on; the attempt may or may not be conscious, but the result is the same...
...voice and the drop-dead campiness. It also invites a few questions, which Boy George, 22, can handle expertly. "I'm not gay," he says. "I'm as gay as I am heterosexual. O.K., I've experimented with both sexes, but I'm not a limp-wristed floozy and I'm not a transvestite. Transvestites show tits, man. I'm 6 ft., I'm a man, and I have no delusions." As for his appearance, Boy also says that he has "experimented" a good deal but "I'm just convinced that this...
...first man off the plane walked with a severe limp; the second hobbled down the stairs on crutches; the third had to be helped out the door. One by one, 43 more walking wounded emerged, looking grimy and bedraggled; some were shirtless but most wore torn blue jeans or other work clothes that they had pulled on hastily when the fighting began eight days earlier. The last eleven of the 57 Cubans injured in the U.S. invasion of Grenada and sent home to Havana last week had to be carried off the plane on stretchers...