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Word: weak (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crimson got a breather Wednesday against woefully weak Lynchburg, putting together 12 singles, nine walks, and five errors to bomb the Virginians, 15 to 3, Stephenson, Al Liebgott, and Mike Patrick contributed 11 RBI's in the seven-inning contest. Andy Luther was the winning pitcher...

Author: By Richard Andrews, | Title: Baseball Team Wins 4, Ties 1; Umpire's Walkout Stops Game | 4/6/1964 | See Source »

Winnie was a joke on the society scene. At 51, her beauty faded, she was a hopeless hypochondriac who existed on spaghetti and prunes, found it difficult to get up in the morning and impossible to get to sleep at night. She complained that she was too weak to wash or comb her hair or care for her pets-two pedigreed dogs, a huge cage of exotic birds, and a vast aquarium of equally exotic fish. So the dogs dirtied her room, the birds died, and the aquarium was carpeted with dead fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Switzerland: Room Service in Lausanne | 4/3/1964 | See Source »

Expense & Bother. The theory is that company names should never end on soft-and therefore weak-sounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trends: The Name Game | 4/3/1964 | See Source »

...unruffled and modest answers to newsmen's questions after the verdict, Wade said that Belli "put up as weak a case of psychiatric defense as I have ever seen." Asked what he would have done if he had been on the other side, Wade replied that he would not have risked all in an attempt to prove Ruby insane. "I would have tried to go for leniency," he said. Many lawyers agreed that Belli blundered in putting all the defense's eggs in the insanity basket. "If I had been in Belli's place," said District...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lawyers: Casus Belli | 3/27/1964 | See Source »

...dead. You find them answering the telephone in the back-street cab stands of little towns, their hair freshly bleached, their nails painted, their high-arched shoes ready for dancing with someone who cannot come." > Pity is the cruel emotion: "If there is anybody I detest, it is weak-minded sentimentalists-all those melancholy people who, out of an excess of sympathy for others, miss the thrill of their own essence and drift through life without identity, like a human fog, feeling sorry for everyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: THE METAMORPHOSES OF JOHN CHEEVER | 3/27/1964 | See Source »

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