Word: weak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...siding. A car packed with crated machinery from Hungary caught his eye. From a knothole in one big crate, a finger beckoned. The inspector hurried over to the crate. Inside it a hoarse voice whispered: "Thirst, thirst." When police broke open the crate a young, dirty-bearded man, too weak even to stand, fell out into their arms...
...Netherlands, Dick Ket, who died at 37 in 1940, painted brilliantly in the school known as magic realism. Some European critics were sure that Ket's 44 paintings, many of them self-portraits, would eventually yield enduring fame. But the young artist, conscious of a weak heart and the imminence of his own death, was careless with his materials, bought pigments and oils in the nearby hardware store. One day in 1951, a rich Dutch butcher paused to admire his prized Ket, a self-portrait that was as exact and detailed as a reflection in a still pond...
...then from his own 45, the senior tailback cut off tackle down to the Tiger 35 before lateralling off to Gianelly, who tore down the sidelines for another ten yards. On the very next play, the tail-wing series worked to perfection as Cowles sped around the Princeton weak side for the final 25 yards. Frate's conversion put the varsity an impressive eight points to the good...
With is tailbacks in bad physical shops, Caldwell tomorrow will probably depend to a great extent on the running of wingback Frank Agnew, Agnew gained extremely well on weak side reverses and and sweeps against Colgate and may test the right side of the Crimson line...
...Weak Faith. These advances have followed a pattern which Couturier eloquently urged. Churches, he argued, should commission the very best artists available, and not quibble over the artists' beliefs. His reasoning: "Where traditions are still living traditions, minor artists are enough to insure the continuous production of whatever art religion may require. But . . . to effect a revival of liturgical art it would be safer to turn to geniuses without faith than to believers without talent." Couturier missed one point: the improvising geniuses of an age weak in formal faith can scarcely be expected to rival those of the distant...