Word: weak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviets, using U.S. accomplishments as targets even in their weak areas, have plans to produce by 1972 as much crude oil as the U.S. pumps...
With a wary eye cast over his shoulder at the M.I.T. loss two weeks ago, varsity lacrosse coach Bruce Munro claimed yesterday that "strange things can happen." Unless things are very strange indeed, however, the Crimson will defeat a rather weak Tufts varsity this afternoon...
...Crimson tennis squad will face a fairly weak Williams team this afternoon at 2 p.m. on the Soldiers' Field courts. The Ephmen succumbed to the varsity last spring at Williamstown, 6 to 3, and will be lucky to do that well today...
...camier still shied away, Bonaparte engraved her name forever in his so-called Great Book of Suspects. Just to top off the awful insult, Mme. Récamier became the bosom friend of the detested Mme. de Staël, thus forming an "alliance of two weak creatures who face their oppressors together...
Flowery Charms. "Weak" was hardly the word for either creature. Mme. de Staël was a carthorse Juno with a passionate imagination: she could talk for hours on any given subject without pausing to breathe. Her lovers were so numerous that they ran concurrently, like prison sentences. Mme. Récamier, on the other hand, was bright and lovely as a peacock and quick as a lizard at dodging through chinks. "She liked to stop everything in April," said Critic Sainte-Beuve with French delicacy-meaning that Mme. Récamier drove men half-crazy by drawing them hopelessly...