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Word: weak (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Above all," he went on, "the American people and the Soviet people are as one in their desire for peace. And our desire for peace is not because either of us is weak. On the contrary, each of us is strong and respects the strength the other possesses. This means that if we are to have peace, it must be a just peace, based on mutual respect rather than the peace of surrender or dictation by either side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: This Is My Answer | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

...human system if there was enough tannic acid present. It worked in Dr. Ugai's laboratory, where mice stored up 30% less strontium in their bones when they also got tannic acid. Then he found that a standard brew of green or black tea worked like a weak solution of tannic acid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Tea & the Atom | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

...supposed to be Macbeth's honorable rival. As Macduff, Roy Poole has a slight vocal problem; but he has a noble manner, and rises to great heights in the moving scene in which he is informed of the slaughter of his family. Duncan is a weak old king, but not so weak as Pat Malone makes him. Barry Macollum is a deeply affecting Physician. William Myers' Lennox needs to smooth out his jerkv delivery...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Macbeth | 8/6/1959 | See Source »

...weak from your loveliness, Joan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Words in Rotation | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

...resist our passions, it is oftener because they are weak than because we are strong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: LA ROCHEFOUCAULD: SAGE & CYNIC | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

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