Word: weak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Also withdrawn-in the sense that he privately approved of these actions and passed the buck to the Chamber of Commerce-was Virginia's weak-kneed Governor Thomas B. Stanley, who had co-signed the engraved invitations with a flourish. But many another white Southerner was highly offended at the breach of good manners. In an open letter to Governor Stanley, Virginia-born Lambert Davis, director of the University of North Carolina Press, wrote: "[You] have taken the ridiculous position of asserting, in effect, that being distinguished is an accomplishment possible only for people of Caucasian ancestry. You have...
Coach Bruce Munro, who normally uses only three midfield teams during a game, rotated four to wear down the M.I.T. teams in Wednesday's 6-4 victory. But such a strategy involves the calculated risk that the opposing team will score against the weak fourth line, for the Crimson is notably weak in reserves...
Despite the absence of four of the varsity tennis team's top five men, the Crimson still managed to defeat a weak Brown squad, 9 to 0, yesterday at Providence, with the loss of only...
...Tigers appear especially weak in the distances, with the lone exception of sophomore Rod Zwirner in the mile, and in most of the field events...
Only in the broad jump among the field events, does Princeton pose a serious threat, with three 21 foot-plus jumpers in Murray Peyton, Ray Empson, and Dave Smith. Henry Wente and Dave Gately will have to do much better than their weak showings of last Saturday...