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Word: weak (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity swimming team will meet a weak M.I.T. squad tonight at 8 p.m. in the I.A.B. pool...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strong Suimming Team to Meet Underdog Tech at I.A.B. Tonight | 12/19/1956 | See Source »

Lloyd's weak defense against the charge of collusion was meat for Labor's Big Bad Wolf. Said Bevan: "It is believed in France that the French [government] knew about the Israeli intention. If the French knew, did they tell the British government? The fact is that all these long telephone conversations and conferences between M. Guy Mollet, M. Pineau and the Prime Minister are intelligible only on the assumption that something was being cooked up." Bevan had his own picturesque fable for the situation. "Did Marianne take John Bull to an unknown rendezvous? Did Marianne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Collision Over Collusion | 12/17/1956 | See Source »

Dartmouth, which adopted wrestling as an intercollegiate sport only last year, scored three pins against McGill. However, they appear weak at the lower weights, a deficiency which the varsity will try to exploit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Six Sophomore Starters | 12/14/1956 | See Source »

...varsity basketball team stands as a definite favorite to win its second game of the season tonight, when it encounters a weak Tufts five at 8:30 in Medford...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Quintet Favored to Defeat Weak Jumbo Basketball Contingent | 12/12/1956 | See Source »

...smoke-filled basement room in Warsaw's Polytechnic Institute last week, 30 determined young Poles probed deep for the weak spot in Russia's hitherto impregnable Communist empire. No plotters, and meaning to be peaceable, they were asking questions: How much farther can Poland go on the road to democratization without risking a Soviet crackdown? Can the Polish Communist Party slow down the momentum of Poland's drive for complete national independence? The answers could also spell out the end of Soviet hegemony in Eastern Europe, and a formidable reduction of Soviet power itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Rebellious Compromiser | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

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