Word: weak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This perennial weak spot of U.S. athletes is explained by European critics as an accurate reflection of U.S. preoccupation with speed rather than guts and staying power. But this year, as in 1948, the U.S. has an answer to that. In the decathlon (ten events for one prize), the closest modern parallel to the original Olympic Games, no one has yet touched the record of Olympic Champion Robert Bruce Mathias...
...Taft managers were caught between the highly damaging publicity of the Texas steal and their need for the stolen Texas votes. Texas was in the public eye, but the Georgia contest had received little publicity-for a good reason. The case for the Taft delegation from Georgia was so weak that not even Taft leaders took it seriously. A month ago top Taft leaders had no intention of making a serious fight on Georgia...
...Soviet people want peace, not because they are fainthearted and weak, but be cause they are truly generous. They want peace with America, with the America of the Progressives, the Republicans and the Democrats." In the U.S., Ehrenburg went on, the people are allowed to choose be tween Democrats and Republicans, be tween psychiatry and physiotherapy, be tween vacations in Florida and the Rock ies. But not between war & peace...
...jets, the Starfire (over 600 m.p.h.) has straight instead of swept-back wings. Sweepback is meant to minimize the dangerous effects of shock waves at high speed. The same result can be accomplished by making the wings much thinner-a difficult job because thin wings tend to be weak and flexible. Lockheed gets around the obstacle by chewing large parts of the wing-skin, stiffeners, etc.-out of heavy slabs of aluminum...
...Next, he gets a sound signal but no electric shock. If his hands sweat again, it proves that he has heard the sound and is reacting to it just as he did when it was always followed by a shock. If the operator gives him such a weak sound signal that he cannot hear it, his hands do not sweat and the inker shows the limit of his hearing powers. Doctors at the infirmary have tried the sound and shock test on 500 children aged four months to ten years (most of them two to three years old) and found...