Word: weak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like the team itself, the attack line is strong at the ends and weak in the center, Dick Ames made first-string All-Ivy last year and led the team and the League in scoring. Together with veteran Ted Leary he should strain, the peripheral vision of enemy goalies. The only uncertainty is on the crease, where "Bo" Willard is competing with sophomores Steve Neubert and Keith Hutchinson...
...playgoers to read books of revelation between the wisecracks. What Tennis may portend is that self-contained worlds, either private clubs or entire civilizations, invite and perhaps deserve destruction. Nevertheless, the play is more like the rape of the Sabine men, that stock modern American stage theme in which weak men are ravished and ravaged by strong women...
...Weak Francs. Europe's businessmen, who previously complained that the unchecked inflow of U.S. dollars aggravated the Continent's inflation, are now warning that the cutback raises the danger of deflation. The Swiss franc and the French franc have weakened in relation to the dollar on international money markets, and the short-term lending rate for Euro-dollars-the $5 billion-plus hoard of dollars that is circulated by Europe's banks-has jumped from 41% to 5% as borrowers scramble for funds to finance expansion. In Australia, where the Sydney stock market suffered its sharpest fall...
Unhealthy Resistance. The reasonable answer would seem to be: submit now and sue later for false arrest. It is legal to resist illegal arrest in 47 states, but the right goes back to a day when armed citizens combatted weak police to avoid harsh imprisonment. Today the equation is so changed that it rarely pays to resist...
Consider Tony: within a month he appears in Author Gilbert's big bad book about the auto business in Detroit and in another novel about the same thing, John Quirk's The Hard Winners. In both books, Tony is the handsome, talented but weak vice president who aspires to the top spot in the corporation but is blackmailed and loses out because he is a corrupt womanizer. Then there's Ann. She has grown up from the plain good girl of bad novels published several seasons back and become the lovely, sexy girl Author Gilbert shows...