Word: weak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most dependable hitters, Bob Smith will play centerfield. McInnis is counting on Smith, along with Clasby and Johnson to help what he fears may be a weak hitting team...
Captain Russ Johnson solves the first base problem. He hit well last season, and McInnis is depending on his bat to spark what he fears may be essentially a weak hitting team...
...declaration of independence, political as well as spiritual, from the tottering visible unity of Rome. This is the Germany which has now been ripped in two by the war of Communism and the democracies. This is the Germany of Otto Dibelius. Once Europe's arbiter, but now politically weak, this Germany logically has as its spokesman a Lutheran bishop, for its spiritual unity, at the moment, is the only bond which may keep its severed halves alive and hopeful...
Contests need not involve physical violence to evoke the guilt reaction, says Dr. Levin. There was a bridge player who, when he began to win, would "go all to pieces," feel weak, and be unable to shuffle the cards or write the score. Even chess has its victims; one man had an attack when he thought he was going to checkmate his opponent. Cataplexy afflicts winners, not losers. Some people, says Levin, "feel guilty when they beat a competitor, even in sport, for victory gratifies their unconscious hostile wishes. When they lose a game, they may not like...
Coach Bruce Munro was forced to take a team against the southern lacrosse powers with only one scrimmage, a 20 to 4 defeat of weak Boston Lacrosse Club. In the B.L.C. game, first string defenseman Paul Jones injured a hip. Bob Larsen, another member of the defense, also sprained an ankle and pulled a muscle...