Word: frailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Player's competitive fiber is legend. His father, who was mine captain of the Robinson Deep Mine in Johannesburg took him out for his first round at age 15. He parred the first three holes, and thereafter he dedicated himself to improving his game with demonic determination. Short and frail, he adopted a brutal regimen of calisthenics in order to increase his length...
...take off our shoes before entering," says Foumi Greenfeld in a pronounced Japanese accent. She weighs only 95 Ibs., but she is not frail. Her hair is touched with gray, yet youthful energy and intelligence snap from her eyes. One is reminded of an enduring, middle-aged heroine in a Kurosawa film...
...special rite at the basilica in Assisi, Italy. The skeleton was first identified by Vatican experts in 1818. When the remains were exhumed so the grave site could be repaired, Pope Paul asked scientists to study them. Their findings: the saint, who died in 1226, was short and frail and Ms bones "very porous, denoting a form of malnutrition...
...crimes, charged Truscott, were part of a scheme by Allen & Co. to show that all was well, in order to keep the stock price high and thus make a big profit. Even more serious was the article's suggestion that Charles Allen Jr., 75, the firm's frail founder, had associations with the Mafia...
Refreshingly, Michael Voysey, who put together this program of Shaviana, has stayed away from the plays altogether. The selections are drawn from letters, essays, critiques and talks on the BBC, plus a frail, touching, ninetyish farewell to all on British TV. The evening moves chronologically from Shaw's arrival in London and includes reminiscences of his early family life, his courtship of Charlotte Payne-Townshend, a millionairess, his epistolary romancing of Ellen Terry, the famed actress, and his meeting with Isadora Duncan at which, to his acute distress, she propositioned...