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Word: limps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heart pounds, his breath comes rapidly as he locks eyes with a saber-toothed tiger. Should he fight or run for his life? He reaches down, picks up a sharp rock and hurls it. The animal snarls but disappears into the trees. The man feels his body go limp, his breathing ease. He returns to his darkened den to rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stress: Can We Cope? | 6/6/1983 | See Source »

...loses muscle tone and control of the body when experiencing strong emotions, such as excitement or anger. Stakes tells of one patient who, when he tried to punish his children by whipping them was unable to do so because when he tried to remove his belt he became "very limp and weak...

Author: By Marie B. Morris, | Title: Helping Them Sleep in the Lab | 5/18/1983 | See Source »

...under the weight of their own irreverence. Modeled after a Lewis Carroll poem. Jabberwocky deteriorated into nerve-deadening blood and gore. A romp through time and space with a seven-year-old (Time Bandits) fell into the saddest trap of all--it was cute. And a couple of truly limp filmings of live shows made even the most adoring followers doubt any future theme movie could recapture that early perfect match between spooter and spoofee...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Fishing for an Answer | 4/7/1983 | See Source »

...earlier scenes, a good two-thirds of the play's to background for the real drama of the second half. In this light the play's first act is much too long and rambling; an entirely extraneous street women and her rabid dog, included purely for a few limp laughs, are only the furthest extreme of the play's meandering. The early scenes of the second act show what that first act might have been: here, the script is tight, and much more amusing...

Author: By Frances T. Ruml, | Title: Bringing Up Baby | 4/5/1983 | See Source »

...hospital is now operated by the Botswana government, and Merriweather has become the senior medical officer at Princess Marina Hospital in the country's capital, Gaborone. He was crippled in a 1971 auto crash that killed his first wife and almost ended his medical career. Walking with a limp and in some pain, he still makes his hospital rounds. A Commander of the British Empire, the unassuming doctor was elected the first speaker of the National Assembly when Botswana won its independence in 1966, a rare honor for a white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Missionary | 12/27/1982 | See Source »

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