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Word: weak (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...monetary gold stocks in the hands of foreign governments and central banks, 2) encourage hoarders to bring gold out of hiding. The $12 billion windfall from revaluation of the U.S.'s own $23 billion gold reserves could then be used to set up an international fund to stabilize weak currencies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: The Gold Scheme | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

...Thomas wandered westward across the Saxon plain. Broken by torture, starvation and a chronic case of dysentery, his body somehow kept going, even when his mind was delirious. At last, just as he was about to make contact with the advancing U.S. forces, a German patrol picked him up. Weak as he was, Yeo-Thomas promptly organized another mass escape. One day later he staggered with his companions into an American outpost. "Don't shoot!" he shouted. "Escaping prisoners of war!" Said an American soldier: "Well, you guys are goddam lucky; you've just crossed a minefield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Alias Shelley | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

Various other coaches had slightly different objections, some, like Ed Diddle., agreeing about the mediocrity, while others, like Ray Meyer of DePaul, think the rule helps the Weak foul shooting team...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 1/30/1953 | See Source »

...first objective does not necessarily require huge U.N. armies camped along the long, weak line of the Yalu. And the second objective does not require U.N. armies "wandering around . . . China." (Churchill's phrase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STRATEGY: A Will & a Way | 1/26/1953 | See Source »

...Crimson started the season with a 6 to 1 victory over McGill, then beat M.I.T. 7 to 2. Usually strong Dartmouth was humiliated 9 to 0, and Amherst's weak team was also shuf...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrestlers' Record Endangered; Squash Team May Go Undefeated | 1/24/1953 | See Source »

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