Word: weak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...husband was murdered. "I felt lonely," says Kazuko, and she took up with one of the castaways. After 20 days of bliss, her lover was drowned. She went to live with another, the man who had killed her husband. "At first I repelled him coldly, but a weak woman is no match for the strength of a man." But, she says, "I couldn't really love him," so a third castaway obligingly killed...
...those who survived the trip to Palestine-and thousands died on the way-religious fervor soon had to compromise with political realities. The headlong charge of the First Crusade (described in Vol. I of the History) had established a weak chain of Crusader states in Syria and Palestine-the strongest, the Kingdom of Jerusalem, in the south. They were all military states, constantly at war. But they were thinly garrisoned. The average Crusader was essentially a military tourist, and no more than 2,000 armed knights, most of them French, were ever permanently stationed in the Holy Land...
...Flesh Is Weak. In Minneapolis, while the Rev. Arley Bragg of the Central Free Church spoke on "Bad Hearts and Poor Eyes," the Rev. Richard Clearwaters of the Fourth Baptist Church spoke on "Hanging Hands and Weak Knees...
After coaching three bleak seasons of Harvard basketball, Norman Shepard is understandably cautious in talking about his team's prospects for this year. And although the varsity turned in some excellent shooting against weak Rhode Island University Saturday in the Blockhouse, caution must indeed be used in judging its chances...
They are not only anti-Communist, they're anti-government, he stated. "They only tolerate the existing government because it is so weak." Russian agents have thus far been unsuccessful in persuading the tribes to set up small independent states or to overthrow tyrannical chiefs...