Word: frailing
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...such a frail flower, with so few champions, neoromanticism has survived remarkably well. Has it a future? Probably, so long as youth and disillusion last...
Marylie Roy, 17, appeared amply qualified to enter the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. She was a high school graduate and had an IQ rating of 137 (in the top 2%). But last week the frail, bright girl pondered bitter news. Not only is she unqualified for U.B.C., but if she wants to continue her education, she must start over again in the tenth grade...
What Paule wants is to marry Roger, a pipe-smoking, frail-chasing, hairy-handed brute a few years her senior, who lacks only a trout to look like a Field & Stream ad. What she gets is a febrile few months with Simon, a delicate, beautiful and overmothered young man of 25. Neither fellow is of a sort likely to be encountered except in the lavender dells of a schoolgirl's fancy...
...Rome last week for an audience with Pope John, frail, pale Thomas Cardinal Tien Ken-sin, 69, was halfway to a new assignment-his first since 1948. In that year, as the Chinese Reds were advancing against the Nationalists, Chinese Cardinal Tien, suffering from a heart ailment, left Peking for Shanghai and then for a long recuperation in the still peaceful British Crown Colony of Hong Kong. After China fell to the Communists, the cardinal retired to a seminary of his congregation, the missionary Society of the Divine Word, near Chicago...
...Nobusuke was frail, and so swarthy that his schoolmates called him "Darky." He was also proud and conceited and "was always picking fights with bigger and older boys," a habit he has not yet outgrown. In middle school, Nobusuke wrote an essay praising the suicide of General Maresuke Nogi, the hero who captured Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War and later disemboweled himself on the death of his beloved Emperor Meiji in 1912. The act had shocked the West and produced a critical editorial in the London Times, but Nobusuke hailed it as an example of virtuous idealism...