Word: frail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mother. Frail, fluffy-haired Norah Carpenter, former telephone operator in the Auxiliary Territorial Service, sat up in the tiny bedroom of her miner-father's house. Piled around her were congratulatory messages and neighbors' gifts: diapers, blankets, baby boots and dresses...
Sombre Man. Erect, frail, handsome Edvard Munch came from a family of civil servants, well established in Norwegian cultural circles. A beautiful but weak child, young Edvard stopped school early to study art. He traveled in France and Italy on scholarships, studied under Pierre Bonnard at Paris...
When founding father Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (N. Lenin) died 20 years ago last week, Russia's foremost biochemist and anatomist were ordered to preserve the frail little man's mortal remains for posterity. A black and red marble pyramid was erected on Moscow's Red Square. Inside the embalmed body was laid out, under glass, in a quiet vault where the people could file silently by. War closed the tomb's door, but last week Moscow scientists made their annual report: "Excellent color in the skin, firmness and elasticity of connective tissues, flexibility of the joints...
Died. Marvin Hunter McIntyre, 65, secretary to the President since 1933; after long ill health; in Washington. Frail, pale, poker-playing, close-harmonizing McIntyre worked as a reporter before he joined the Navy Department as a public-relations man in 1918 and met Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt. McIntyre was business manager of F.D.R.'s 1932 campaign, was thereafter rewarded with his post as the White House's special lobbyist, buffer and public-relations man. For the next eleven years he racked his wraithlike body with an average of 270 daily phone conversations, numberless face...
...frail little man, a Spanish mestizo with burning eyes and a sharp tongue, lay seriously ill in his suite at Washington's Shoreham Hotel. Philippine President Manuel Quezon waited word of his future...