Word: weak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other dangers ahead. Brown is aware of the catastrophe that would be caused by atomic war. The world might recover, he admits, but he doubts that it could ever climb again above the agricultural level. Another danger is that health and welfare measures may be favoring the reproduction of weak human strains...
...electronic policeman is there to shepherd the student across, gouging his strength and competitive spirit, leaving him dependent and weak. Other schools have football, Harvard should at least have dangerous crossings, where dodge or be struck is the rule and pedestrians eye one another with mutual respect. Massachusetts Avenue must not be turned into a Welfare Street, an intellectual game preserve. Keep the Freedom of the Roads...
...Homely, weak, forbidden to play with more robust children, often left alone while the two women worked, he developed his own kind of compensation. "Any time I looked out the window," his mother recalls, "my boy was looking in the trash cans. He was always searching for something, but he didn't know what. He used to say, 'But Maggie, there might be something down there...
Martin Meyers gets the most laughs, and deserves most of them, with his gape-mouthed version of a farm boy at Harvard. Robert Rosenberger and Lee Jefferies do the romantic bits with fervor and slightly weak voices, managing, above all, to seem sincere and attractive. Barbara Williams' distinctly frail voice was backed with charm and bounce for "Incognito"--her only singing chore. And her acting, when not rushed, was very competent. For a chorus of "All About Love," Ellen McHugh showed perhaps the most talent for comedy in the cast, closely followed by Shiela Flaherty's board rendition of "When...
...paper, the freshmen hardly figured to be outstanding. While not overly weak in height, they nevertheless lacked the very tall center who could assure them of a majority of rebounds in each of their games...