Word: frail
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...known Provoo, nor had he received reports that the man had given aid & comfort to the enemy, the general gave the Manhattan jury a moving, 90-minute account of the defense and surrender of the Rock, and his life in Jap prison camps, which had left him bent and frail...
General Giap is a frail little man whose dark, bulging eyes burn with fanaticism. He was born in Annam 40 years ago. His entire family is believed to have lost their lives in the struggle for national independence. When 18, Giap was jailed by the French for a few months and then allowed to study at the top French academy in Hanoi, where he took a doctorate in political economy. A teacher remembers him as: "passionate and sentimental." Somewhere along the line he got a Marxist education too. When the Popular Front brought left-wing parties together...
Meat for the Mink. For generations, Newfoundlanders have gone out in their frail boats to hunt the potheads, which pursue squid into Trinity Bay. It was a haphazard venture until Norwegian Captain Iversen settled near Dildo in 1946 and opened a factory to render blubber and process the greasy meat prized by mink ranchers for the gloss it gives to the animal fur. To increase the whale catch, he raised money for the Arctic Skipper and a sister ship, Arctic Venture, to go farther out into the bay and herd more potheads shoreward...
Adapted by Mel Dinelli from his story and play, The Man, the movie is a pseudo-psychological thriller that succeeds in being more sedative than suspenseful. Ida Lupino, looking frail, suffers long and lugubriously, and moody Robert Ryan eventually seems more of a bore than a bogeyman...
Carl Herried was a frail old man of 73, but he was still working part-time as a Christmas-card salesman. His wife Elizabeth was only 64, but she was so ill that he had to take her to Wisconsin's Vernon County Memorial Hospital. One day last week he went to visit her there. He carried a suitcase, which he shoved under her bed. Then he stood back and listened while the doctors and the county judge gave their verdict. Elizabeth, he was told, was incurably ill of heart trouble and drifting into senility. She would have...