Word: frail
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...Other family encounters don't go off without a hitch. "Why did you leave my mother in the North when you went to the South?" a young North Korean man asks his obviously frail 93-year-old South Korean grandmother. His antipathy resonates, and the distressed woman's head drops. A minute later, a Red Cross doctor enters the room with a portable bed. But the rest of the family does not let the distraction gobble up precious time, and one of the siblings quickly sheds light on the subject, explaining her mother tried to return but couldn?t because...
...sweet black tea. The fact that we were in an area where people routinely starved did nothing to stem his appetites. If, as happened on occasion, I forced Bishaq to miss a meal, he would complain constantly. "I feel faint, I feel weak," he'd say, holding up a frail hand. "It's not right. It's not good...
...being enforced by shari'a officials, who have publicly whipped men and women for adultery. Aceh's ulemas are pushing for even stricter punishments, such as amputating the hands of thieves. Irwandi publicly opposes such ideas, which he knows offend the Western donor countries upon which his province's frail economy partly depends. But the clout of Aceh's ulemas cannot be ignored either, and it is unclear yet whether he has the courage or inclination to stand up to them...
...people of France agree on very little, but for decades one touchstone of national feeling has been respect and love for a frail, bearded, beret-wearing force of nature named Abb? Pierre. The death on Monday, at the age of 94, of France's "voice of the voiceless" has inserted a pause in a divisive presidential election campaign as France pays homage to a man of unerring courage and compassion; a man who embodied the best of French traditions...
...ceremony installing the warlord as emperor, the weakened Jianli takes a frail swipe at his exalted friend-foe. Few people notice. "History will record that when you were installed, I attacked you," Jianli says, and the now-Emperor replies, Wrong. I write the history books. And they will say I kept you alive, because you are my eternal shadow." Jianli has poisoned himself, so as not to be anyone's shadow, and gasps out his last word: "Brother." To put the musician out of his misery, the Emperor ritually stabs him. Then we hear the anthem Jianli has composed. "Everlasting...