Word: frail
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tyng was a rather frail, sleepy-eyed fellow, who in later pictures is shown sporting Silas Marner sideburns. He was already a senior in 1877, having played his three previous years as a third baseman and outfielder. Tyng, however, made his reputation as a catcher and continued to catch for two more years while enrolled in the Law School. Tyng therefore played for the Crimson nine, or Magenta as it was known in those days, for six years, a record only equaled by W.H. Coolidge...
...fascinating difference between the two films is that The Deer Hunter presents a version of the American experience in Viet Nam that is utterly at variance with the view, widely held among intellectuals, of barbarously overarmed Americans, a nation of William Galleys, doing battle against the frail, gentle, long-suffering Vietnamese. Cimino's victims are the rambunctious guys from Clairton, blue-collar heroes who took their wholesome patriotism to Viet Nam and there found themselves alone, morally adrift among savage Southeast Asian exotics who are forever forcing them to play Russian roulette. There is no record or recollection, incidentally...
...chartered Air France 747 circled over the city and past the nearby Elburz Mountains three times before settling down gently on the tarmac of Tehran's Mehrabad Airport. As aides and reporters milled about, the frail old man, wearing a black turban and ankle-length robes, stepped out of the aircraft's door into the chill February morning. His back hunched, he clutched the arm of an Air France purser as he walked down the portable ramp to touch Iranian soil. After 15 years in exile, Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. 78, spiritual leader of a revolution that has been building...
...battle zone, while volunteers with megaphones shouted instructions to the drivers. The casualties were a microcosm of the revolutionary movement itself: a fashionably dressed woman in her 20s with knee-high beige plastic boots; a seven-year-old boy dressed inexplicably in a blue track suit; a frail old man with a grizzled beard; countless young men and women in the cotton shirts and faded blue jeans that are the unisex uniform of the city streets...
PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, Md.--A frail-looking 15-year-old boy weighting little more than a hundred pounds sits silently, hands folded in his lap, wearing that pensive look of desperation reserved by most adolescents for such crises as going out on the first date or getting caught sneaking a couple of dollars out of dad's wallet...