Word: frail
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...More than once we have expressed readiness to dissolve the Warsaw Treaty if NATO should agree to respond in kind. This principled stand continues to be fully valid." What undoubtedly impressed all of Gorbachev's listeners was the vigor of his public performance compared with that of the frail Chernenko...
Elsewhere in Lebanon the combined Christian militias, known as the Lebanese Forces, rebelled against the country's Christian President, Amin Gemayel, raising doubts about the future of Gemayel's frail government. In response, Syrian troops and armor were seen moving on the northern fringes of the Christian enclave, and Syrian Defense Minister Mustafa Tlas declared that his country could not "stand idly by" if Gemayel was threatened...
...boys who are not only reigning at the top of their games but raising the ceilings of their sports. Confounding normal description, confusing standard measurement, Gretzky is not the slickest skater or hardest shooter, just as Bird is not the swiftest runner or highest jumper. One is frankly too frail for the business, the other simply too agile for his size...
...leadership muddle in the Kremlin. President Konstantin Chernenko was seen twice on Soviet television last week, ending a public disappearance that lasted nearly two months, but the taped glimpses only served to heighten concern about his poor health. Chernenko, who is believed to suffer from emphysema, looked wan and frail in both appearances; in one, he seemed to be breathing with difficulty. Though he had professed to be hopeful about the outlook for arms negotiations in a speech that was read in his name a few days earlier, the TV footage made his ability to supply day-to-day direction...
...worthy Benoir, fit to assume his rightful inheritance of family leadership and at least (pounds)30 million, or kill him in the process. She rages: "You! You will drive me into the grave with those bones! It is ridiculous to be as thin as that! It is idiotic!" His frail physique does not prevent Mama from administering energetic corporal punishment. Castleton, who finds he cannot help loving the ridiculous Dauphin, grows increasingly alarmed: "Christ, she does wade into the poor little...