Word: frail
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...campaigning in Nusa Roviana. Dunde's chief, Eki Lee Daga, informs Curragh that men armed with sticks and knives are preparing to cross the channel in canoes if the ban is not lifted. The story seems far-fetched, but the police are obliged to investigate it. Curragh offers the frail chief her hand, looks into his cloudy eyes and slowly explains why the police have come. Through an interpreter, Boi denies he banned the candidate. Instead, he says, rivals of the man invoked Boi's name as a ploy to scare off their opponent. His message to the disaffected, issued...
...then the Yanks again. What to make of those four days? A disaster, of course. Game One exposed our frail bullpen anew. Game Two was all about the Yankees starting-pitching problems. Game Three showed how bad we?re playing, even this late in the season: base-running screw-ups, a desultory air permeating Fenway on a sultry day-even though the Yankees were in town. Game Four was this droning ballgame that you just knew we weren?t going to win. Wakefield goes nine, but gives up just enough homers. Stopgap Leiter holds the Sox just enough...
...favorite portrait of Lincoln comes from the end of his life. In it, Lincoln's face is as finely lined as a pressed flower. He appears frail, almost broken; his eyes, averted from the camera's lens, seem to contain a heartbreaking melancholy, as if he sees before him what the nation had so recently endured...
...strangling a 13-year-old girl, anti-Semitic crowds outside the steamy courtroom in Atlanta chanted, "Hang the Jew." After the Governor courageously commuted his sentence from death to life imprisonment, he was kidnaped from his jail cell and lynched. For more than 70 years, defenders of the frail, scholarly Leo Frank have fought to reverse the verdict against him as unjust and bigoted. Last week Frank was finally given a belated measure of justice when a Georgia board awarded him a posthumous pardon...
...Knoxville, a 70-year-old woman with diabetes, gallstones and signs of congestive heart failure decides after a week in the hospital not to have gallbladder surgery. The hospital insists that she be sent home, despite her frail condition. "It was a mistake," says Dr. Bergein Over-holt. "Within twelve hours she was back in the hospital in a prestroke condition. It was touch and go to save...