Word: frail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After Verges finished his closing arguments, the court ordered that Barbie be brought in to hear the 341 charges against him. Asked if he had anything to say, Barbie, looking frail in a gray suit, light blue shirt and necktie, replied in French, "I did not carry out the arrests ((of the 44 Jewish children)). I did not have the authority to order the deportations. I fought hard against the Resistance, which I respect. That was war, and the war is over...
...undisputed lord of this domain was the bishop. Until very recently, "Dom Miguel was a strongman," observes Anthropologist Luciene Guimaraes de Souza of the government's Indian agency. But now the frail prelate has reached the Vatican's mandatory retirement age and will soon return home to Sicily...
...Frail-looking but alert, Barbie, 73, was led out of the bulletproof, glass- screened dock at Lyons' Palace of Justice. As rooftop sharpshooters stood at the ready, he was driven in a heavily guarded motorcade back to his quarters at St. Joseph Prison, a short distance from the site of his former Gestapo offices. In recent days Barbie had reportedly been weighing whether to exert his right under French law to stay away from the trial, which he denigrated as a "lynching campaign led by the French media." The tactic is not unprecedented. Last February, Lebanese Terrorist Georges Ibrahim Abdallah...
Just as competitive as personal-computer makers are the feisty independent companies that write the software for the machines. The programming firms, only frail upstarts not long ago, now constitute a $3.3 billion U.S. industry whose creative output is the lifeblood of the computer business. Last week two major hardware manufacturers, IBM and Apple, announced major moves that could have an impact on the balance of competitive power in the bruising software business. Apple said it will create a new programming company, to be financed with some of the manufacturer's $700 million cash hoard, while IBM announced...
...cherry orchard. In their 1984 book The Kennedys, Peter Collier and David Horowitz describe a Thanksgiving at Hyannis that had taken place two years before. After dinner, Rose, then 93, gathered her strength to address the remnants of her tribe. "I want you all to remember," said the frail matriarch, "that you are not just Kennedys, you are Fitzgeralds...