Word: weak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...handle farm policy under General Douglas MacArthur, he engineered one of the occupation's great achievements: the sweeping land reform that gave land on easy terms to nearly 4,000,000 peasants. To learn their problems, he waded into paddyfields and lived in their huts (because of a weak stomach, he avoided peasant fare, ate mostly eggs...
...ultimately, slave to the heart . . . A little twist and Nehru might turn dictator, sweeping aside the paraphernalia of a slow-moving democracy . . . Jawahar has all the makings of a dictator in him-vast popularity, a strong will, ability, hardness, an intolerance of others and a certain contempt for the weak and the inefficient . . . In this revolutionary epoch, Caesarism is always at the door. Is it not possible that Jawahar might fancy himself as a Caesar?" Nehru's sister adds her own surprising comment: "Though the above may have been written in a mood of self-confession, much of what...
...sedulous devotion to the raffish, the evening is not entirely a success: there are ups and downs and starts and stops. Fine when it is funny, the play goes flat when it is all too strenuously trying to be. The flesh is weak in Lunatics and Lovers, and at times the inspiration seems even weaker. And hand in hand with a good pungent coarseness in the characters themselves goes a certain touch of vulgarity in the treatment of them. Nor, for all its lowdownness, is Lunatics and Lovers quite to the gutter born, with a truly deep-seated sense...
...first exposures showed what the doctors had been looking for. At the hiatus, where the esophagus (gullet) passes through the muscular diaphragm from the chest cavity into the abdominal cavity (see diagram), the muscle was weak and part of the upper stomach had herniated or bulged through it. How the hernia started, they could not tell (it might have been there in milder form since birth), but there was no doubt that it was the cause of much of the Pope's recent gastritis, hiccuping and vomiting. The hernia held food like a pouch, instead of letting it pass...
...erratic, explosive brain, he joined (said his doctor) a body "built in the most beautiful proportion . . . head, legs, arms and trunk, all without a flaw, like some ancient Greek statue." Gladstone's first intention was to become a parson: he never quite forgave himself for being so weak as to become a Prime Minister. Religion was not his faith; it was his spouse, and he loved it so passionately that when he felt exhausted he would say quite naturally "not that he wanted to go to bed, but that he wanted 'to go straight to church...