Word: frail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...frail old man sat in a wheelchair, his emaciated right arm hanging limply in his lap, his eyes staring vacantly overhead. His lip was curled, as if he had lost control of his facial muscles, and his bald pate bore the green marks that are used for radiation treatments. As a nurse guided his wheelchair out of a hospital elevator, only the presence of an escort with an official- looking radio suggested that this was a special patient: William Casey, until last week the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency...
...sides launched aerial and missile attacks on each other's cities. In a gesture that some observers interpreted as a sign of President Saddam Hussein's rising desperation, Iraqi warplanes repeatedly raided the Iranian holy city of Qum, a campaign calculated to infuriate the aging and increasingly frail ruler of the Islamic Republic. Reports continued to circulate in the West last week that Khomeini, 86, has been confined to bed for the past month and is extremely ill, perhaps near death...
...ceremony at which Macmillan accepted the peerage was tinged with sadness. Robed in resplendent red with ermine trim, he seemed to personify Britain's decline as a great power. He stood frail and trembling, an aging lion leaning on a walking stick concealed beneath his robes. When it came time for him to affix his signature to the act of his ennoblement, Macmillan fumbled and had to be guided. Then, straight and firm, he held the paper containing the oath close to his failing eyes and read his pledge in a clear, ringing voice: "I Harold, Earl of Stockton...
...internal exile" in the city of Gorky, Sakharov spoke out on precisely the issues that landed him in Gorky in January 1980. Asked by reporters to comment on Moscow's continuing intervention in Afghanistan, Sakharov responded, "I consider this the most painful part of our foreign policy." The frail nuclear physicist also tackled human rights. "It is impermissible for our country to have prisoners of conscience and people who suffer for their convictions," he said. "I will do everything within my power to have this stopped." One day later Sakharov and his wife Elena Bonner issued an appeal on behalf...
Through the course of his investigation we encounter an intriguing array of suspects, including a lovelorn mistress, a frail mother with a ferocious grip on the family, a wife with an overly loving relationship with her cousin, a bitterly estranged daughter with a lover in the Communist Party, and a brother-in-law with several lovers among the Berowne's servant staff--one of whom is both a decoy member of the Communist Party and an undercover policewoman...