Word: frail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...village bride selected for him when he was 14, and subsequently disregarded. No. 2 was a professor's daughter, devoted Yang Kai-hui, mother of Mao's Moscow-schooled sons; she was killed in the civil war of the '20s. No. 3 was a militant propagandist, frail Ho Tzu-ch'un; she is reported to have borne Mao five sons, all left for safety with peasant women during the civil war, and all since dis appeared. In 1938 Mao and Ho separated, later were divorced ; for consolation, ex-Wife Ho went to Moscow...
...Watts, who would be 137 if alive today. Last week a British biography of Watts arrived in the U.S. (The Laurel and the Thorn, by Ronald Chapman). Along with it came a Shavian review in the London Sunday Observer. The book proved that it took six women to give frail, flowing-haired Painter Watts the feather bed existence his art required. Shaw's review proved that one of the six, auburn-haired actress Ellen Terry, means a lot more to 89-year-old Shaw-even today-than she ever did to Watts...
...converting low-grade bauxite into alumina (which is in turn smelted down to aluminum). This had blocked SPA's deal to lease the Hurricane Creek plant (which operates on low-grade bauxite) and Jones Mills aluminum plant to the Reynolds Metals Co. (TIME, Dec. 31). Alcoa's frail, grey-haired vice president, I. W. Wilson, had indignantly denied the charges. He did not stop there...
...Tiny, frail, Iranian Ambassador Hussein Ala had successfully pleaded with State Secretary James F. Byrnes for immediate U.S. action to protect Iran's sovereignty...
...direct lineal descendant of one of Hollywood's biggest breadwinners during the '20s: the Harold Lloyd comedies of confusion. Eddie Bracken, in a pretty good modern imitation of the Lloyd hurlyburly, teeters precariously on the ledge of a skyscraper, wrestles with a drunk at the frail end of a flagpole and is chased through a maze of hotel corridors by a sinister set of hoodlums...