Word: frail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hour. When the big news came at last, the President called his Cabinet and the top men of the war bureaus. Anotner call went out at the President's order to frail, white-haired Cordell Hull. As the official family gathered in the Oval Room, the President beamed his greetings...
...single issue of the New York Times readers wrote: "It is a stain upon our national life. . . ." "It is simply mass murder, sheer terrorism. . . ." "Let us . . . dump the whole thing into the Atlantic or Pacific . . . man is too frail to be entrusted with such power...
Lampooner & Landscaper. Shelby's painter was Terence Duren, frail, 40, ferocious lampooner of womanhood, an ex-Chicago Art Institute instructor, ex-Greenwich Village freelancer. For the occasion, he dolled up his studio, a former mortuary off Shelby's Main Street, with bouquets of gladioli in milk pails. He also painted his potbellied stove azure and white...
Even when they fly still intact, rattletrap, ungainly, frail, murderous, the suicide planes are lonely and individual as faces, macabre as hearses, cryptic as death itself. And against the "men who want to die" roars up the desperate skill and clamor of the "men who fight to live." Both the intrepidity of reason, and the intrepidity of whatever the Japanese use in its place, are caught in The Fleet That Came to Stay in a relationship beyond all logic. It is not a pleasant film. It is an immemorially primitive nightmare in extremely modern dress; a dance of death...
...string of washing hung on the porch of the Smalls' shingled cottage. Small's frail mother came out as the coupe drew up in the front yard. With her was Small's sister, Irene. "Oh, you're back," said Small's mother. He grinned and led the way into the kitchen, lugging his barracks bag. "We thought you'd be coming home," said the mother. "We heard on the radio that the 86th was back. Your father said for you to be sure to come down to the factory...