Word: frailness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Their frail, unlikely-looking champion, Mrs. Velma B. Johnston. 47. is a Reno secretary. Ten years ago she was shocked to see a truckload of frightened, bleeding wild horses on their way to the slaughterhouse. She investigated the methods of roundup and was even more deeply disturbed, launched a campaign that has won her the nickname, "Wild Horse Annie...
...salute boomed out over Hanoi's Gia Lam Airport, Communist North Viet Nam's frail, wisp-bearded President Ho Chi Minh shuffled up the ramp into an Indonesian Airlines Convair, emerged with his guest of honor, Indonesia's President Sukarno. Burbled Ho, in the halting English he had learned years ago as a cook's helper in London's Carlton Hotel: "The Vietnamese people feel as if they were clasping in their arms 88 million heroic Indonesian people." Replied Sukarno, also in English: "I promise you, in the name of the Indonesian people, to support...
...bedroom apartment, the paint easily rubs off the prefabricated walls. The furniture is frail and imitative. The kitchen contains a small, 1,300-ruble ($130) refrigerator that stands 3 ft. 9 in. high, is more like a 1939 than a 1959 U.S. model: the stove ($60) is so small that the oven would cramp a large chicken...
...three years, Ceylon's frail-looking Premier Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike has needed all his considerable skill at compromise to hold together his United Front coalition. Chief threat: the unsettling presence in his Cabinet of pro-Communist Food and Agriculture Minister Philip Gunawardena...
...wonder where it will all end," mused Vag as he grappled with the problem of having two feet, two shoes and two rubbers, curiously divided into rights and lefts. Rubber days were never a happy experience for Vag. He always felt surly, humanly frail, and totally unsuccessful with Radcliffe on such occasions. No matter how effete he managed to appear, no matter what he said of wit, his rubbers always had the last word. They never failed to remind him that he was a twitch. Vag sighed several theatrical sighs, took a few lumbering steps for practice, and gamely...