Word: feebler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...several died in the hospital or soon after leaving. Outstanding exceptions: seven who had feeding tubes shoved into their stomachs so that they had to take nourishment. Some physicians argue that with an emaciated, enfeebled patient, aggressive forced feeding may be dangerous. Not so, says Dr. Williams: the feebler the patient, the less resistance she can offer. The starved body (some adult women patients weighed as little as 50 Ibs.) soon responds to food. Sometimes the mere fact of being well fed helps the patient to shuck off the emotional problem. In any case, a starving patient...
...rest of his life, Cordell Hull was in and out of the hospital, growing steadily feebler, suffering from diabetes and arteriosclerosis, often on the point of death but always able to call upon his Tennessee toughness to pull him through. Last week, at 83, in the U.S. hospital at Bethesda, Md., Hull fell into a coma. He did not awaken...
...strength did not last for long. As he grew feebler, his old friend, Methodist Episcopal Bishop John Newman, who had finally managed to baptize him three months before, tried to persuade him to take Communion. "I would only be too happy to do so," scribbled U. S. Grant, "if I felt myself fully worthy. I have a feeling in regard to taking the sacriment [sic] that no worse sin can be committed ;han to take it unworthily. I would prefer therefor not to take it, but to have the funeral service performed when I am gone." After reading this note...
Russia and Communism were getting to be known quantities instead of bogeymen. Edward Crankshaw's Cracks in the Kremlin Wall expressed one expert's judgment that Russia is feebler than supposed. Other careful books exposed Communism in practice. Margarete Buber (Under Two Dictators), Elinor Lipper (Eleven Years in Soviet Prison Camps), Zbigniew Stypulkowski (Invitation to Moscow) and Gustav Herling (^4 World Apart) were all graduates of Soviet prisons, and wrote of their experiences with skill. The reissue of French Traveler Astolphe de Custine's book of a century ago, Journey for Our Time, reminded moderns that, then...
Hayden burgeons, but he still has a lot more to learn about the wide world. Some of it he learns with pain and dismay from Professor Lorenzo Lundsgard, lately of Hollywood. A new, if feebler, edition of that pious fraud, Elmer Gantry, with a touch of Berzelius Windrip, the magnificent Lorenzo plans a Technicolored crusade to convert America to the gospels of Culture and Leadership, meanwhile scooting across Europe and sweeping up historical tidbits as with a vacuum cleaner. Lorenzo also sweeps up Olivia. Hayden falls into the eager arms of Roxy Eldritch, a freckled, redheaded home-town girl with...