Word: frailness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last month. Colonel Hashem Sepahpur of the Teheran military governor's office ran into an old acquaintance, an ex-army captain named Ali Abbasi. "Salaam," cried out the colonel in greeting. Ali, a frail, limping man of about 40, responded with a cordial "Salaam," but hurried on, nervously clutching a worn leather suitcase. "I'm going to the doctor now," he called back...
...Hirohito's 18-day tour was dramatic proof of the change. Too Human. Some Japanese conservatives today would like to restore the old imperial symbolism and put Hirohito behind a bamboo screen like his great-grandfather Komei, who used to sit hidden, with only his bony knees and frail legs showing when he conferred with members of the state council. But the fact is that Hirohito himself, a constitutional mon arch without real power, has become far too human to be easily raised again to semidivine status. In the years since the war, he has grown paunchier, more stooped...
Samuel Songo, a Mashona tribesman of Southern Rhodesia, has a left arm that is like a magnificent piece of ebony sculpture. But the rest of his body is stunted and crippled; his reedy heron's legs are too frail to carry him, and he can use only two fingers at the end of his wizened right arm. When Africa was darkest, such human culls as Sam Songo were staked out for the leopards to rid them from the tribe. But Sam was allowed to live and to learn to carve living figures in stone with those two fingers...
...deference to lingering fears of reviving militarism, Japan's top defense leadership is civilian. Frail, old (68 years) Tokutaro Kimura, the overall defense boss, is a lawyer. On all major decisions, he must consult an eight-man Defense Council of civilians...
Perfection First. The Nevins yard has found the going rough ever since the death of its founder in 1950. Henry Nevins was born in New York in 1878, and wanted to be a doctor but was too frail, so he decided to work at his hobby, shipbuilding. He apprenticed out to Charles L. Seabury, and at 29 bought his own small boat shop and storage yard. He took a hand in building most of the boats...