Word: weak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After the most thorough study yet made of the drug, with state prison inmates who volunteered for tedious and sometimes painful tests, Dr. Kligman offers some negative findings. DMSO, he says, provides practically no relief for itching or superficial pain. As a germ killer, it is weak "and far inferior to alcohol." It does nothing to promote the healing of clean, simple burns, and it worsened one of ten ultraviolet burns. DMSO also failed to tranquilize any of 20 men in a six-month test. Nevertheless, it has some remarkably beneficial properties...
...Police brutality is not a reason; it is an excuse for weak-minded lawbreakers. JOHN DANIEL WHITE Mount Edgecumbe, Alaska
...then both she and Russell sued G.M. They also brought suit against the local Corvair dealer and the U.S. Rubber Corp., which had manufactured the car's tires. Against G.M., they made two charges: that the Corvair's doors and door handles were too weak to withstand the pressure of a rollover, and that because of a poorly designed rear axle, the rear wheels tended to tuck in and lose all traction in a swerve...
...thoroughgoing defense. It hired St. Petersburg Attorney Robert Nunez and another local lawyer, dispatched two G.M. general counsels from Detroit, also sent down G.M. Engineer Horatio Shakespeare. To counter the claim that the Corvair's doors were weak, the company brought in a metallurgist from the University of Illinois and an accident specialist from U.C.L.A. G.M. reconstructed aspects of the accident by crashing three cars, took motion pictures of the crashes in both color and black and white...
...Buck is Texas-born and New Mexico-bred, strong in the trousers and weak in the head. At 27, he imagines himself a sort of composite TV cowboy and spends most of his time riding mattresses. Somehow he decides that riding conditions are better in the East: "The men there is just faggots mostly, so the women got to buy what they want." As the book begins, he is heading for Manhattan with mounting hopes...