Word: frail
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...Champion. He was, in some ways, a strange champion. He was 67, and in frail health. He was born the son of a petty Austrian official and a subject of His Apostolic Majesty, Francis Joseph (his birthplace near Trento belonged to Austria until after World War I). He had been active in the Italian nationalism movement as a student at the University of Innsbruck. But he was a rambling speaker and a rambling organizer, and he had a lifelong reputation as a compromiser...
...basic method of the program is to build up frail muscles by special exercises until they will be able to hear the burden of normal living. Men with severe injuries first work out in the gym on wall weights and other devices. When they have developed sufficient strength, they transfer to more enjoyable activities such as rowing or swimming...
...Gottwald now confronted Benes, his purpose was again clear: to break necks. He led the ailing, frail old man to the study window and pointed at the intricate baroque splendors of the city below. Benes saw thousands of Communist demonstrators in St. Wenceslaus Square. Beyond Prague's gilded spires, Benes could glimpse his country's fertile hills, and beyond them he sensed the inescapable proximity of Russia. Gottwald said bluntly that unless Benes gave in, there would be a general strike and bloodshed...
...This frail old man of seventy-eight, who may be a politician among saints, but is no less a saint among politicians." Thus the Manchester Guardian last week described Mohandas Gandhi. The description was perfect...
...Mexico City's Reforma Hotel, one day, a frail little man in faded khaki, his shirt held together with a cheap gold pin, presented to Huston a card: Hal Croves, Translator. Traven, Croves explained, couldn't come; but as Traven's old friend and translator, he, Croves, knew the author and his work better even than Traven himself did. Huston hired Croves at $150 a week as technical adviser. By the time Croves had done his job and disappeared, Huston was pretty certain that uneasy little Mr. Croves was Traven himself...