Word: weak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the President's lady. Two teenage boys stuck their heads in the rear window and shouted: "Hey, Mamie, how about your autograph?" She obliged. The volunteer workers serving coffee and doughnuts had a bad case of nerves. One confessed later: "My knees were so weak that I was afraid I'd pour coffee on the First Lady." Diet-conscious Mamie was a little unsettled herself by the doughnuts, but reached for one reluctantly ("Oh dear me, I would take the one with the most sugar...
Noisy Backfire. Carefully hand-picked as the candidate by G.O.P. leaders, Clifford Case, an Eisenhower Republican, nevertheless ran into trouble not long after the campaign began. A small, reactionary G.O.P. faction began trying to force Case off the ballot on the grounds that he was 1) a weak candidate, and 2) not a Republican. Led by James P. Selvage, a onetime (1933-38) pressagent for the National Association of Manufacturers, the anti-Case faction contended that the nominee was a dangerous left-winger, the darling of the C.I.O. and of the Americans for Democratic Action...
...Poor Pig. The once white gravel of Hoppegarten was grey and unkempt. In place of the old gay flags were monotonous red banners. Instead of champagne, there was weak beer; instead of flower girls, old women hawking Communist "reconstruction lottery" tickets. The wives of Communist functionaries walked up and down munching garlic sandwiches...
When CBS offered him $40,000 to appear on Shower of Stars, Tenor Lanza announced he would make his long-awaited comeback. He dieted furiously and reduced his weight by 40 Ibs. But when it came time to loose the famous voice, he was too weak from dieting. CBS, deciding that Lanza was too big a name to drop from Shower's première, tried a secret expedient. When the monthly show opened last week with Betty Grable and Harry James, Mario merely mouthed the lyrics while some of his three-year-old recordings provided the sound...
...Cassandra's attacks on the government were so savage that the Cabinet came close to suppressing the paper. After Dunkirk Cassandra bellowed for an all-out attack on Germany, even though Britain could barely defend itself at the time. He complained that the British army was weak because it was ruled by the "military aristocracy of the Guards, second-class snobocracy in the center, and behind it all the cloying inertia of the civil service." In the House of Lords, the Lord Chancellor pointed out that the legendary Cassandra had come to "a sticky end." To avoid such...