Word: weak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...since July 17; Mr. Vanzetti had been virtually fasting for the same period, though he at least drank coffee during the first few days of the strike, at one time ate a full meal, and last week brought his hunger strike to a definite end. Both men were very weak...
...cancel a paid subscription appeals to me as a weak, silly gesture but a high-school teacher dealing with current events has considerable opportunity to make friends or enemies for magazines. I can assure you that your circulation will not increase through any influence of mine unless I can be convinced that your standards are higher than the issues of your magazine I have had up to date have led me to believe...
Even so, the Order of St. John did not depose its Grand Master upon such flimsy, hearsay tittle-tattle. At last, in 1926, Princess Charlotte divorced her husband, charging that he had caused her "mental anguish." Presumably this violated his oath to "protect women . . . and weak." A conclave of 'the Order of St. John met secretly, accepted the resignation of Prince Eitel-Friedrich as Grand Master, then declared him "an honorary Knight of St. John...
Fourteen months ago such a tide of resentment was at the flood. It might have led King Ferdinand of Rumania on to better fortune for his dynasty, had he dared to brave Jon Bratiano then. Instead Ferdinand I, weak, invalided, accepted M. Bratiano's resignation as Premier without comment, and meekly called one of the Bratiano henchmen, General Fofoza Alexander Averescu, to the Premiership...
...cigar, he had ingenuity, humor. An erect, burly, bearded man who waited days to cool off before thrashing an abusive farmer, _ he was gentle, temperate, poised, just. A portraitist who could block out, build up, polish and accent an oil masterpiece in one sitting, with never any weak "teasing up" or dishonest glossing over, he had the disciplined intensity of genius truly great...