Word: frail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...little lesson, why then any of the tragedies that had happened to him, any one would have sufficed to chasten him. But all together - the loss of both his children, his means of livelihood, Fanny's health and his - that was too much to ask one frail-boned man to endure. Who, after all, was Manischevitz that he had been given so much to suffer...
...independence for much of what is now known as the Third World was charted by the courage and will of one frail man, Mahatma Gandhi, with his doctrine of nonviolent resistance. He was sadly disillusioned, however, by the savage separation of India and Pakistan, which he proved powerless to prevent. Only five months after India won its independence in 1947, he was killed by a fanatic...
...Hill, play against the sweetness and come close to expressing the wrenching loyalties of familial love. Peter Coyote, as Rawlings' future husband, exudes steely authority from behind his gentle smile and bow tie-a humanized George Will. But Mary Steenburgen, an actress of eaglet resourcefulness, looks both too frail and too stubborn to bring Rawlings to life. One wishes Cross Creek well; one wishes even more that it were better. -By Richard Corliss
...forced to crouch motionless for hours or days, his head down and outstretched like the nose of a jet, his arms extended behind him like its wings. While Red Guards changed hourly, the victim crouched and answered questions. Some collapsed, some died. Hu survived but is a frail and melancholy...
...perpetrator: a hulking 6-ft. 6-in., 220-lb. Minnesotan, now working in New York City, and last seen in pinstripe knickers. His victim: a frail denizen of Toronto, covered with feathers. The weapon: a spheroid mass of hide, cork and yarn flung carelessly, at perhaps 70 m.p.h. So the charge sheet might have read last week on New York Yankee Centerfielder Dave Winfield after his arrest in Toronto for fatally beanballing a herring gull...