Word: weak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...epee, traditionally weak, Andre Nikitine, Bruce Parker and Dave Schwartz led to a solid 8 to 1 margin...
...last week, two local Moslem farmers passing through Mokhimpur were seized by villagers and beaten with sticks until, weak and bleeding at the feet of the sadhu, they consented to cry, "All Hail to the Hindu God Ramachandra." Released at last, they staggered away and called the police. Next day, five policemen on bicycles and an officer on horseback rode into Mokhimpur to interrupt a scene of nightmare revelry. The men dressed only in loin cloths, the women with their saris tucked up high above their knees, the Baghbhans were doing a wild dance around their sadhu, who himself...
...varsity squash team returns from its exam layoff tomorrow afternoon when it opposes a weak M.I.T. team on the Engineers' home courts. The match should prove no more than a brief exercise period for most of the varsity...
Perhaps more significant was the one-two victory in the 200-yard backstroke; Hammond and Murry, both sophomores, finished in that order ahead of Greer of Navy. This improvement in a varsity weak spot was clouded by the fact that Yale swimmers recorded times nearly five seconds faster over the weekend...
Over the justice of this estimate the Supreme Court clashed headlong last week. Wrote Chief Justice Earl Warren for the 6-3 majority which set aside the Alabama decision: "The circumstances of pressure applied against the power of resistance of this petitioner, who cannot be deemed other than weak of will or mind, deprived him of due process of law." From Justice John Marshall Harlan (joined by Stanley Reed and Harold Burton) came a vigorous dissent. The gist: not only was there no physical coercion but "psychological coercion is by no means manifest"; on the basis of the record...