Word: weak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Varsity cross-country captain Dyke Benjamin led the Crimson harriers to their sixth successive victory and second perfect-score triumph of the season yesterday as they smothered a weak Dartmouth team...
...recession were "insignificant." In the Midwest, says Vice President Keith Cone of Chicago's La Salle National Bank, "the rise in delinquencies and repossessions was just not alarming at all." By prodding the creditor to be more cautious in his lending and thus weeding out many a weak credit risk, the recession actually im proved collections in some places. Sanger Bros. Department Store in Dallas and one of San Francisco's biggest department stores reported that collections were better during the recession than before it. Said Emil J. Seliga, president of Chicago's Talman Federal Savings...
...book is that it all happens to a little boy. Tanguy would surely have died but for a German friend named Gunther who mothered him, fired his flagging will to live, and, before his own death, left the boy a matchless maxim: "Leave hate to those who are too weak to love...
...MOUNTAIN Is YOUNG, by Han Suy!n (51 I pp.; Putnam; $4.95), is characterized by numerous passages such as this: "And then she felt hot all over, going molten and weak, liquid fire rising under her skin, the pure excruciating gooseflesh, for he was there ... He stood in front of her and she caught the warmth of his body and the faint smell of leather and sandalwood...
Michael Parish may be weak and a little foolish, a man fixed by his background and fleeced by his women. But Lawyer-Novelist Auchincloss (The Great World and Timothy Colt, Sybil) pleads his case effectively. He also secures his own expanding niche in American letters, where he suavely dissects the outwardly successful failures and where, in the Fitzgerald tradition, the rich boy never gets off Scott free...