Word: frail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...frail, carrot-topped youngster in Michigan, Vaughn took up boxing in self-defense, went on to win the state Golden Gloves title as a 124-lb. feather weight (and have his nose broken three times, his jaw once). Picking up his master's degree from the University of Michigan in 1947, he spent ten years in Bolivia, Costa Rica and Panama as a United States Information Service officer and as a coordinator of U.S. aid projects. In 1961 he went to Washington as director of the Peace Corps' sprawling Latin American operation. President Johnson soon tagged...
Electronic Collision. So frail that it can hold its shape only at weightless, airless altitudes, that wide wing is the working element of a satellite, built by Fairchild Hiller Corp., for detecting micrometeoroids. Pegasus' 208 rectangular panels are covered on both sides with thin sheets of copper and aluminum separated by plastic. The metal sheets are electrically charged, but normally no current flows between them. When a micrometeoroid penetrates the aluminum, it will punch a hole in the plastic and fill the hole with metal vapor that is a good conductor of electricity. Although the gas will dissipate quickly...
PRINCE EUGEN OF SAVOY, by Nicholas Henderson. A polished biography of the Paris-born princeling who, after Louis XIV felt that he was too frail for military service, defected and left France to become the Habsburgs' top general and Louis' nemesis...
PRINCE EUGEN OF SAVOY, by Nicholas Henderson. A polished biography of the Paris-born Savoyard who, after Louis XIV felt he was too frail for military service, defected to become the Habsburgs' top general and Louis' greatest nemesis...
Telegrams and flowers arrived by the thousands, from the humble and the great. Relatives came and went. Moran, stooped and frail at 82, drove up two or three times daily to examine his patient, then read his simple, unemotional bulletins to the shivering newsmen outside. For 18 hours a day, bowler-hatted Detective Sergeant Edmund Murray, Sir Winston's longtime personal bodyguard, kept order in the crowded street. When Churchill's life appeared to be ebbing, Moran relayed Lady Churchill's request that reporters and TV crews disperse. Within minutes, the arc lights winked out, endless coils...