Word: frailing
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...Pardway's ambition to leave the Bazaar to his offspring. The news that his general manager has bought up shares in the Bazaar which were presented to the Pardway children brings old Daniel to his deathbed. He makes one more oration to his pip-squeak heirs, receives their frail assurances that they will do better in the future...
...Harold Coolidge left remote Lao Kay early in 1929. With its impressive impedimenta packed on some ninety sturdy little ponies, tended by their mafous or native drivers, the safari toiled over the ridge of Tonkin and Laos. After several weeks of overland travel, the four American scientists embarked on frail native canoes and floated down the waters of the Nam Hu and later the mighty Mekong...
...Zangara's shooting arm was suddenly shoved up in the air by the frail hand of Lillian Johns Cross, wife of a Miami physician. From the row behind, Thomas Armour, a lanky Miami contractor, reached forward, also grabbed that lethal arm. But Zangara's fingers kept working the stiff trigger...
Prodigious also is Fenton Benedict Turck Jr. He worked with test tubes before he could play marbles, cultivated streptococci before he could write his A B C's. At 9, a zealous, frail, brown-eyed boy, he lectured the Chicago Microscopical Society on microbes and laboratory technique, showed his own lantern slides. During a fatiguing lecture which ran far beyond his regular bedtime, he grew pale. A wise scholar picked up the child, held him inverted by his feet. Right-side up again Young Turck continued his lecture. Father Turck decided that biology excited the child too much, diverted...
...route "whereby to Britain would be secured the key to the universe, enabling their possessors to give laws to both oceans and to become the arbiters of a commercial world." The Spanish soon drove the colony out. Paterson's family died. He returned to England, helped cement the frail union between Scotland and England, argued incessantly for international free trade, against cheap money...