Word: frail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back from World War I as a frail youth with a bad lung, Lynch slept through a spare-time course at the University of Washington journalism school. The first term, he says, all he learned was to double-space his copy. After six months of it, his news-writing instructor called him aside and said: "Mr. Lynch, you are wasting your time here. Your English is horrible. Your only possibility is as a sports writer...
...commission (which had so far been bogged down in endless, petty testimonies) by obtaining unanimous agreement to limit witnesses' time to one hour, and by sending field teams to the troubled northern border. Greece at last had a coalition Government. The new Premier, in place of Tsaldaris, was frail, ailing ex-Banker Demetrios Maximos, a nonparty ex-royalist. The new Government, promising to review the case of all political prisoners, made a start by releasing women & children. But civil strife, which had slackened after the U.N. commission's arrival, flared up again, this time farther south than before...
Christian Politics. Walking among the delegates as a symbol of both totalitarian oppression and church unity was frail Pastor Martin Niemöller, who after eight years in concentration camps is a leader of Germany's newly combined churches.* His presence helped the assembled churchmen to see that the Council's major objectives-upholding the Christian witness in the secular world, and uniting the Church of Christ-were really two different aspects of the same thing...
...reputation and disappoint the folks, Sugino settled down to nearly a half century's hiding in Hulutao, a bleak blister on Manchuria's coast. But in Japan his fame grew with the years, reached fruition when death-seeking members of the Special Attack Corps began hurling then-frail planes into U.S. warships at Lingayen Gulf and Okinawa...
...invited Lily Pons to return to its aviary for two Lucia di Lammermoors. To clinch the deal for this season Manager Edward Johnson offered her the coveted opening night, suggested that she sing her favorite role, Lakmé. Last week Pons fans were surprised to see that her once-frail body had plumped up to 114 lbs., was suntanned to the right shade for her Indian role. From India she had returned with twelve saris (wraparound Hindu dresses), six of which Dressmaker Valentina wrapped into costumes for Lakmé. Sharing Lily's backstage dressing room were three long-haired...