Word: weak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reading the story left a bitter taste in my mouth. Just who the hell do the American people think they are? The excuses they manage to think up to keep the so-called foreigners from living in the same block with them are pretty weak in this...
Notwithstanding the overzealous efforts of the female co-stars, Van does surprisingly well. His performance as a weak Long Island social climber, which fortunately requires no difficult facial expressions, is excellent. He sustains a convincing dapper-heel effect, which is his bonanza, until the traditionally gooey ending...
...Dulles pressed the thought further: "The attitude of the free peoples is almost wholly defensive . . . The Communism of Soviet Russia and its satellites represents today the active, dynamic element and the free world represents the static, passive element... The U.S. ... can be destroyed by forces that, in themselves, seem weak -if those forces are active and if we are passive...
...Patient Navajo. Another shipment of Nydrazid was sent to Tuba City, where Dr. Charles Clark found, among the unhappy Navajos, all too many cases of both meningeal and miliary tuberculosis. A 17-year-old girl (a miliary case), admitted with a fever of 103° and so weak that she could not walk alone, was fever free within a week and soon coughed no more sputum. Now she is up & around...
...stock market, which has felt weak in the knees for some time, took a slight header last week. It was pushed down by American Telephone & Telegraph Co., which announced a $500 million issue of convertible bonds, and American Woolen Co., world's biggest woolen firm, which passed its dividend. Since A.T. & T.'s new issue would dilute the present stock, traders rushed to sell. A.T. & T., normally steady, dropped two points. American Woolen dropped three points to 30; for minutes, trading had to be stopped before a bid could be found. The unloading of stocks spread...