Word: lamed
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...bill (send it back to the Agriculture Committee), the result was a stunning Administration defeat: 215 to 205 in favor of recommitting. Republicans voted almost unanimously against the bill-the lone Republican to vote for it (that is, against recommitting it) was Nebraska's Phil Weaver, a lame duck recently defeated in his primary race for renomination. But the Republicans could not have defeated the bill by themselves: they were joined by 48 Democrats...
...Senate in a fit of temper, hacked petulantly on the arm of his chair with a penknife if he could not get the presiding officer's attention. He defeated Johnston in Johnston's first try for the Senate, died in 1944 before he could finish his lame-duck term...
...only satellite leader to make the trip. Summoned unexpectedly to the Kremlin last week were the bosses of the Soviet Union's other dependencies -East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Bulgaria and Hungary. Reason for the conclave: a top-level meeting of COMECON (Council for Mutual Economic Assistance), the lame, 13-year-old Communist-bloc alliance originally designed by Stalin as an answer to the Marshall Plan. The COMECON agenda was, as usual, secret, but obviously two acute problems had converged to unsettle Soviet policymakers: 1) the booming success of the Common Market, which violates Red dogma that capitalist states must...
...their presence, some screamed insults at them. Becerra vainly shouted for order, but gave up in despair. He ordered the chamber lights turned off and left the room. The Deputies filed from the building, trying to pick their way between police and rioting Peronistas. One Deputy, slowed by a lame leg, was hit in the chest by a tear-gas bomb and hospitalized...
...race day, as 15 sleek thoroughbreds paraded to the post, all eyes were on Ridan. His biggest competition, the early favorite Sir Gaylord, was out of the race -he had pulled up lame the day before-and the smart money figured Ridan at 2 to 1. Breaking perfectly, the horses pounded around the fading arc of the clubhouse turn, fought for position on the rail. As they swept into the back stretch, Hartack might have permitted himself a grim smile. Up ahead, Ridan refused to obey the commands of Jockey Manuel Ycaza and spurted into a three-length lead. Ycaza...