Word: weak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sedative. Absentmindedly, without really meaning to, he gives her much too much. She dies, a victim of what might be called a Freudian sleep. The audience is left with the impression that Belle was practically begging to be murdered, and that Dr. Crippen, as usual, was just too weak...
Earlier we saw the fantastic as a refuge from mundane reality. Liz offers a chance for a real-life adventure! But Billy is too weak for actual escape; the lure of Ambrosia is too powerful. Kidding himself to the last, he "misses" the train which carries...
Traditionally a weak spot, Harvard's foil squad has been shining recently; it positively glowed Saturday. Dan Kirsch and Rich Kolombatavitch won all three of their bouts. After he won two bouts, Dave Dooley was replaced by Malcolm Parry, a promising sophomore who lost his match...
Francis' serve pinned Train to the wall. The return was weak. Francis was in control of the point and his down-the-wall shot tied...
Most people will settle gladly for a few hours a night. But how many are really necessary? For centuries there have been six, seven-and eight-hour schools. Healthy men with strong digestions, Robert Burton held, need less sleep than those with weak stomachs; sanguine and choleric men need less than the phlegmatic, and the melancholic need most of all. Thomas Edison claimed that a man needed only four or five hours of sleep a night-but he also took daytime naps. Among volunteers in scientific studies, the natural sleeping time has ranged from about six to more than nine...