Word: frail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Vaulting & Cavorting. By that token, Kodály himself is a supreme product of a lifetime of singing. Though shy and frail-looking, he leads a bustling life in his Budapest apartment, and his mind remains agile enough to lace everything with a salty streak of wit. At Stanford, he vaulted on and off stages like a track star, cavorted in a swimming pool, journeyed out into the country to gaze up wonderingly at California's giant redwoods, and once drew a little girl aside with a promise of a secret, then whispered in her ear: "I love...
...Danang East, two green-gowned Navy surgeons wielded their scalpels as Medical Corps technicians hovered around the table. But the patient was not one of the U.S. Marines for whose after-battle care the big Navy hospital was primarily in tended. She was Hoi Pham Tri, a tiny, frail Vietnamese girl...
...Santo Tomas University in early 1942, just after the city had fallen to the Japanese. Fresh from the well-fed U.S. business colony there, he was still a husky 195-pounder, determined to talk the camp authorities into improving the lot of his fellow internees. She was tiny and frail, only 5 ft. 1 in. and under 90 lbs., a Filipino doctor with a brand-new practice. Dr. del Mundo, who had received much of her medical training in the U.S., was determined to help the helpless American children and expectant mothers in the camp. She sweetened the camp commandant...
...common law, the principle of privacy derives from the concept of private property, that "a man's house is his castle." This right was eloquently put by William Pitt: "The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail-its roof may shake-the wind may blow through it-the storms may enter-the rain may enter-but the King of England cannot enter...
Since his lonely ordeal in 1962 as the first Negro student at the University of Mississippi, frail, introverted James H. Meredith has felt a messianic call. In a recent book about his Ole Miss experiences, Meredith, now a Columbia University law student, maintains: "Whether it was true or not, I had always felt that I could stop a mob with the uplift of a hand. Because of my 'divine responsibility' to advance human civilization, I could...