Word: frail
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...even more puzzling to this woman than Simone's lifetime of asceticism was Weil's noble yet awful and haunting death. The end came in forced war-time exile from France, when Simone Weil, frail since childhood and now suffering from tuberculosis, chose to starve herself to death in British hospitals rather than accept more food than prisoners of war were offered inside occupied France. With what one doctor later called "total lucidity of mind" and a saintly air of peaceful self-possession, Weil drove herself to the point where her body could no longer take in enough food...
...name was added to the list of writers and artists in the South of France who were given Rescue Committee's emergency visas to the United States. After my miraculous rescue I went to Princeton to thank Einstein and I remember vividly my first impression. Instead of a frail scientist I saw a deep-chested man with a resonant voice and a hearty laugh. The long hair, which in some photographs gave him the look of an old woman, framed his marvelous face with a kind of leonine mane...
...Then the elevator worked and we took him up to his new bedroom. When I carried him in, it was like carrying a frail, long-legged child...
After a while word was passed to the penthouse that an ambulance was waiting. A guard was sent down to make sure that there were no onlookers. With this ritual observed, someone took off the oxygen mask so Hughes could be moved. Gordon Margulis lifted the frail seventy-year-old billionaire, as light as a child, and put him on a stretcher. He and an aide carried it to the service elevator. Margulis raced back, wrestled the huge oxygen cylinder aboard, and Hughes was put back...
...Democrats. What most worries party leaders is militant action beyond their control-the scores of brief, unauthorized strikes and protests that have been taking place across the country. This discord reached even into the highest echelons of the party. At the mid-October session of the central committee, the frail, 76-year-old Luigi Longo, who was Berlinguer's predecessor as party boss, challenged the tactic of non-opposition because it put "the interests of the party in second place [merely] in order to show our national responsibility." He was countered by Giorgio Amendola, 69, a noted historian...