Word: weak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...season long, the mercurial league lead has gone to the team best able to patch up its fundamental flaws (the Phillies cannot hit; the Redlegs are weak in pitching; the Dodgers are getting old; the Braves are injury-prone). Back in St. Louis, fans are betting already that the fast balls of Jackson and Jones and the two kid pitchers from Oklahoma have turned the Cardinals into the one solid team in the pennant scramble...
...sets off. Aware that the hospital will not take him in, he lies on the ground with others who have been turned away; later he strikes off on his own, and almost at once he begins to starve. He sees coconut trees laden with fruit, but he is too weak to climb the trees. Because he is a poor shot, he misses the chickens that might save him. The cross on a Philippine church draws him into a deserted village, and he senselessly shoots a returning woman who shrieks when she sees him. With other drifting troops, his effort...
Regarding the deep medical problem posed [May 27] as to whether the electrician with the weak heart died from walking up a flight of stairs, a stomach full of iced beer, or an overdose of marital relations in which he indulged at least four times a week: no matter why he died, he must have died with a smile on his face...
...name, and loosing a flood of unsolicited praise for the U.S. Said Pakistan's Prime Minister Hussein Shaheed Suhrawardy, whose country depends on the U.S. for 40% of the government's budget: "They have made no attempt to bind us to them in chains or strings, and weak though we are, negligible though we may be in military might, they have had the vision and large-heartedness to treat us as equals...
...dead; there is a very real and persistent current of experiment in all fields. The neophyte painters, the tyro poets, the novice novelists, who feel they must create what is not only new and polished, but also good. There is a constant effort at cultural invention, weak albeit tenacious...