Word: limps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another cause of skepticism about the elections was the bloc of 750 seats reserved for official and public organizations. But even there, insurgency reigned. Leaders of the Soviet Academy of Sciences produced a limp slate of 23 nominees for their 20 reserved seats, pointedly excluding physicist Andrei Sakharov, the Nobel laureate and human-rights activist. But the membership voted down 15 of them, which means that the academy's leaders must come up with new candidates, presumably including Sakharov this time. The Soviet Peace Committee, a goodwill and propaganda organization, was allotted five seats. Among those elected by the group...
...George. I talked about this type of thing with Danny Q. when we were campaigning together. Danny was telling me how that damned liberal press was giving him such a hard time for serving in the National Guard during 'Nam. I told him not to worry because those damned limp wrists knew more about the weather in Ottawa in the late '60s than they did about what our boys were doing in Southeast Asia. Still, I think you and Boydsy are right. I don't want them after...
...Usually the market is crowded, but today business is as limp as the rotting persimmons on display. I buy carrots at $1.64 per lb., three times the price of their frail cousins at the state store but six times better looking...
...side are about ten "Chapter 1" children -- kids who need special attention. Because the district usually requires that everyone complete first grade before being evaluated as learning disabled, kids who have serious problems often limp through the first two years of school behind their more advanced peers...
State Rep. Saundra Graham (D-Cambridge) stood on the State House steps yesterday and refused to limp or quack like the loser of a Democratic primary...