Word: frail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Swedes saw frail Professor Sakimura, unshaven and unkempt, wandering through Stockholm's parks, sometimes slumped in dejection on a bench, or stretched in fitful sleep behind a hedge. Last week the struggle with his conscience ended. Swedes saw four Jap officials hustling haggard Professor Sakimura to a waiting Berlin plane...
...important objects of the campaign is the recruiting of service men's wives, sweethearts and friends Men in the armed forces are traditionalist wary of letting their female friends join up. There fears range from worried over the constitutional damage that Navy discipline might wreak on their frail little loved ones to fixations about the girls treatment in the hands of fiendish...
...Monte Carlo last week death came to the most famous woman composer who ever lived. Frail, white-haired, 86-year-old Cécile Louise Stéphanie Chaminade had been bedridden with a bone disease for more than a decade. Deprived of her royalties by the German occupation (her Jewish publishers in Paris had been liquidated), she died in comparative obscurity. The era that her fragile, saccharine little piano pieces (most famed: The Scarf Dance) represented had long since closed. Hers had been the age of rubber plants, stereoscopic views, and parlor trances over Ethelbert Kevin...
...China's frail and handsome Minister of Education, won a great victory last October. He succeeded in extending his dictatorship over China's thinkers as far as the U.S. In a new set of rules his Ministry declared that a bureau to "guide and control thought and conduct" of private Chinese students studying abroad would be set up in each foreign country. To these thought controllers the students would have to give unconditional obedience and "the moment facts are substantiated and reported to the Ministry that their speech or writing is contrary to the teachings of the Three...
...Bade godspeed to frail, silver-haired Presidential Assistant Lowell Mellett, for six years a zealous New Deal employe, not conspicuously employed since Pearl Harbor. Mr. Mellett, once a Scripps-Howard executive, will pundit a political column for the Washington Star...