Word: frail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small, frail man," Mydans wrote. "He is intense, nervous and understanding. He is overwhelmed by the gifts he is receiving from America and wants to do the most he can with the funds. He explains, however, that with all the sickness and poorness of the people around him, 'it is difficult not to give to people in great want. I can not help it,' he says, 'but sometimes I feel it is more important to give to the sick and poor than to build my church...
...University of Southern California's newest candidate for "world's fastest human" was just, beginning to warm up last week. Unlike the late Charlie Paddock, who was chunky, 23-year-old Mel Patton is tall (6 ft.) and frail (147 lbs.). In Los Angeles' huge Coliseum, against a brisk breeze, Patton sped the 100 yards in 9.7 (three-tenths of a second off the world's record which he shares with seven others...
...Champion. He was, in some ways, a strange champion. He was 67, and in frail health. He was born the son of a petty Austrian official and a subject of His Apostolic Majesty, Francis Joseph (his birthplace near Trento belonged to Austria until after World War I). He had been active in the Italian nationalism movement as a student at the University of Innsbruck. But he was a rambling speaker and a rambling organizer, and he had a lifelong reputation as a compromiser...
...basic method of the program is to build up frail muscles by special exercises until they will be able to hear the burden of normal living. Men with severe injuries first work out in the gym on wall weights and other devices. When they have developed sufficient strength, they transfer to more enjoyable activities such as rowing or swimming...
...Gottwald now confronted Benes, his purpose was again clear: to break necks. He led the ailing, frail old man to the study window and pointed at the intricate baroque splendors of the city below. Benes saw thousands of Communist demonstrators in St. Wenceslaus Square. Beyond Prague's gilded spires, Benes could glimpse his country's fertile hills, and beyond them he sensed the inescapable proximity of Russia. Gottwald said bluntly that unless Benes gave in, there would be a general strike and bloodshed...