Word: weak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, together with five of his colleagues. Monarchist Satrústegui was hauled off to Madrid's Puerta del Sol police headquarters to explain himself. Released after two hours' questioning, Satrústegui emerged exultant. "The government is now weak," he said. "It cannot arrest me without doing great harm to itself." Satrústegui's remarks strongly suggested that the regime of Spain's 66-year-old Caudillo (leader) was in trouble-more trouble than usual. To some degree...
...fault was that she scarcely fitted Verdi's bill ("I would have Lady Macbeth ugly and wicked ... her voice should be that of a devil"). For the most part, Soprano Rysanek seemed more like an ambitious Org Man's tender helpmate than a driven woman goading her weak husband to murder. But in the sleepwalking scene she rendered Verdi's compassionate music with memorable grace. As Macbeth, Baritone Leonard Warren walked through his part woodenly but sang as well as ever, while as Macduff, Tenor Carlo Bergonzi delivered one of the evening's real stunners...
...Copper, a weak sister among metals, recovered to the point where domestic producers boosted prices 1? a Ib. to 30?, the highest level since mid-June 1957. Increased demand from automakers, electrical-equipment manufacturers and home builders led domestic producers to predict continuing recovery during the remainder of 1959. ¶Construction in January slipped slightly from December but still posted an all-time record for the month at $3.7 billion, v. $3.3 billion in 1958. ¶ Department-store sales as a measure of consumer confidence increased 8% from the comparable period in 1958. The full-month totals for January show...
...this statement: "Sometimes a man is ... a born scoundrel-like Stanford White*-and upon him the world lavishes censure and dispraise; but he is only obeying the law of his nature. [The human race] did not invent itself, and it had nothing to do with the planning of its weak and foolish character...
...best teams in the nation, New York University, will face the varsity fencers this afternoon at 2 p.m. in the I.A.B. The undefeated fencers are fresh from two easy victories over weak teams in the last two days...