Word: frailness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...next cot an elderly Sri Lankan woman shakes uncontrollably, her frail body racked by thirst, hunger and the blistering heat. "I've never seen anything like this," says Dr. Khaled Abu-Halimeh of the Jordanian Red Crescent Society, who treats 60 patients a day in the makeshift medical tent. "Without more water, medicine and food, we'll be faced with a disaster...
Griffiths wears a hearing aid and is physically frail, and even her admirers concede that she has grown a bit eccentric. But she scoffs at the notion that she is not up to her job. When the age issue arose in 1982 -- she was a mere 70 then -- she dismissed it with the comment "I'm a year younger than Reagan. And I stay awake at meetings." As for her duties, she said, "You preside over the senate, cast a vote in case there's a tie and inquire every morning about the Governor's health." She figures...
Even with the effort to limit the demands upon his time, there were fears that Mandela would be overtaxed. His crowded American itinerary would test the stamina of a presidential campaigner, much less a frail-looking 71-year-old recovering from surgery to remove a benign cyst from his bladder. Mandela's arrival in New York from Montreal had to be delayed by two hours to give him more time to rest...
...since 1947 -- Stern remains a melancholy outsider with strong immigrant convictions. "No person Argentine by birth, a Jew alive to hear of the Holocaust could march in the jackboots of authority without intense self-doubt; better to keep his voice among the voices, to speak out daily for these frail liberties, so misunderstood, whose existence, far more than any prosecution, marked us all as decent, civilized, as human...
After 17 years underground, they pop up to the surface by the zillions, covering large areas with a crunchy carpet of five-eyed, frail-winged critters, shedding their skins, singing like drunken maniacs and mating with an abandon that renders the word orgy insufficient...