Word: infirm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surging in joy to the waters. The holy men, ascetic but arrogant Nagas, wielded their ancient maces, spears and tridents to ward off the crowd. "The pilgrims got the impression that the Nagas were violent," explained the authorities afterward, "and therefore ran for their lives, crushing to death the infirm, the old and others who came in their...
...second source of hope is a dubious one, at best; comparative scores. If one relies on such an infirm basis, he will discover that while Harvard rates only a tie with Notre Dame, Davidson comes out on top of the Irish by a 26-point margin...
...lawmakers of an infirm Third Republic in 1886 were more than usually jittery about the future of popular rule in France. The tubby nephew of Emperor Napoléeon I was spending many an evening plastering Paris with posters denouncing the republican government and advocating a prompt return to empire. At his Rue de Varenne mansion the grandson of King Louis Philippe was holding miniature courts and receiving ambassadors from abroad, for all the world as though the Bourbons still reigned. To stem the monarchist tide, France's legislature passed a law ordering from France's soil forever...