Word: weak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Zealot. Baylot ordered Paris' cops to start swinging their white batons, and blandly explained: "There is no defensive action that is not offensive in nature." When the Communists resisted, he gave his cops steel helmets, machine guns and tear gas. His weak eyes squinting through a pair of heavy-rimmed dark glasses, plump little Prefect Baylot looked like a clerk, but he used his force and the terrain like a general...
Erosion in the Land. "At Namdinh and throughout Viet Nam, the wait-and-see-ists are going over to the Communists for one easily comprehensible reason: the Communists are strong, the West is weak, and the Communists are winning. 'It is not a matter of mind or heart or preference,' explained one weary Frenchman. 'It is simply a matter of safety.' Said a dejected Vietnamese councilman: 'The people do not like the Viet Minh. But what can they...
...rough and tumble competition of the trucking industry, Trucker Richard R. Riss knows that strong companies tend to get stronger and weak ones to die. Says he: "We've got to keep getting stronger." Trucker Riss is already pretty strong. His Riss & Co., Inc. is one of the world's longest trucking lines (37,000 miles of routes between Denver and the East Coast), the best moneymaker in the business (1953 net before taxes: $2,882,919), and the fifth largest in terms of total operating revenues ($29,114,678). Last week Riss made his bid to become...
Nora Byrne is a girl with a past. Her mother and sister have died of TB. One young man has already jilted her over her "weak stock." Fearful of rousing the peasant horror of TB in the small Irish town to which she has come as a teacher, Nora resolves to tell no one her secret...
...defending champion, Ben Hogan, was still weak from a siege of virus and uneasy about his chances of a fifth victory.- The sentimental favorite, the man most golf fans hoped would win, was unquestionably Sam Snead...