Word: frailness
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...frail, white-bearded priest was exhausted from his long ordeal and looked far older than his 51 years. But Father Lawrence Martin Jenco managed to perform the necessary rituals with distinction last week as he made his way homeward after 564 days of captivity in Lebanon. His journey took him from Syria to West Germany, then Rome, London and Washington, and finally Chicago and suburban Joliet, Ill. "Chicago is a windy city, and I want to feel that wind again," he declared soon after his arrival at the big U.S. air base at Rhein-Main in Frankfurt, West Germany...
Agnes de Mille, who choreographed such classics as Oklahoma! and Carousel, now 80 and frail, vowed to walk to the stage for her medal. She asked for the help of one young Marine, preferably "handsome and unmarried." She needed the additional arm of a naval officer, but she proudly made it, while the audience applauded all the way. Alan Lomax, 71, who helped America discover Burl Ives, Pete Seeger, Leadbelly and Woody Guthrie, explained as he left the White House on that special day that he had gathered "the voices of the voiceless Americans" to bring to the President...
Even if the frail Balaguer wins, he is unlikely to offer Dominicans much of a fresh start. Virtually sightless, he hardly allayed voters' doubts, when he assured them on TV, "My problem, really, is I cannot read." The veteran politician has also been sharply criticized for human rights abuses during his presidency between...
...woman, teetering on the edge of a breakdown, decides to jog instead of swim because "not only is running not cold, but I won't drown if I should stop suddenly"; another woman, traveling in Latin America, is dazzled by the profusion of rich colors but daydreams about the frail hands of her dying mother: "I traced with my finger the huge, adult bones, the fascinating veins that crossed it like mysterious rivers; I fitted my attention exactly to the ridgings of her knuckles, the wedding ring, her pale, flat nails." Not a false note sounds in these recordings...
...personal bus that Imelda used for political outings. Its appointments include 14 armchairs, two beds, a kitchen and bath. Parked nearby is the hospital-on-wheels that accompanied Marcos on his campaign stops earlier this year, its dialysis machine and operating table pointed reminders of the former President's frail health...