Word: frail
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...tiny, staring child lies dying. She is three and has hardly known a day of good health. Now her skin wrinkles around her body like an oversize suit, and her twig-size bones can barely hold her vertical as nurses search for a vein to take blood. In the frail arms hooked up to transfusion tubes, her veins have collapsed. The nurses palpate a threadlike vessel on the child's forehead. She mews like a wounded animal as one tightens a rubber band around her head to raise the vein. Tears pour unnoticed from her mother's eyes...
...Natal. The consequences of the silence march on: infection soars, stigma hardens, denial hastens death, and the chasm between knowledge and behavior widens. The present disaster could be dwarfed by the woes that loom if Africa's epidemic rages on. The human losses could wreck the region's frail economies, break down civil societies and incite political instability...
...Tumescence of Eli" was cancelled only when no Eli could be found with sufficiently long-lasting tumescence. And in more recent times, the residents of Saybrook College have chosen to strip at the Harvard-Yale football game, in the process--as we have earlier noted--revealing "their frail, pasty forms to the eyes of others for the first time since their mothers bathed them...
...decision political in nature. The Supreme Court should never have opened itself up to such accusations; if the majority wanted to guarantee the end of the Florida recount, they ought to have structured their argument around a convincing legal precedent - rather than depending on such a transparent and frail political maneuver and then trying to disguise it as a matter...
...told, Homer Bennett has lived in 14 different foster homes, seldom staying in one longer than a year. At one point, he did get to stay with his maternal grandmother, but she was frail, elderly and unable to care for Homer and Frankie. So the brothers went back into state care, where they were separated and placed in different homes...