Word: weak
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Nietzsche preached that Christianity was a plot by the weak to emasculate the strong. Feiffer suggests that the compulsion to "break through to others" is a disease spread by the insecure to corrupt the self-possessed. This kind of love does not stop with the individual -it seeks to embrace the world. Seeking love and finding oneself, says Feiffer, is an ultimate contradiction in terms...
...reason why the work cannot be done. When the walls and roof have been freed from the rock around them, they will be sawed into chunks weighing not more than 30 tons each. Some of the pieces will be split apart and the breaks joined later. Blocks that are weak will be held together by bolts. Cranes will lift them one by one and deposit them gently on beds of sand on top of the cliff, where they will be wrapped in plastic sheeting to protect their surfaces. When the lowest of the blocks arrive, they will be placed...
...years and twelve big-league seasons, Mickey Mantle has learned to live with pain the way most men live with shaving in the morning. He has an arrested case of osteomyelitis in his left leg. The cartilage is gone from his right knee. His right shoulder has been weak since 1957, when he collided with Red Schoendienst at second base. He has twisted innumerable muscles, and during the 1961 World Series, he bled through his uniform from an abscess on his hip. There is no telling how good a healthy Mickey Mantle might have been. Crippled, he has been good...
...team. Only captain Hamlin, Azikiwe, hurdler Hank Hatch, and pole vauter Jay Mahaney are graduating among those making the trip, and the team includes two promising freshmen, high jumper Chris Pardee and hurdler Tony Lynch. Pardee, who has leaped 6 ft. 5 in. this year, will fill the one weak hole which has plagued the Crimson all year...
...Real Crisis." To an angry minority of commissioners, the church-state report seemed a weak surrender to secularism. But Dr. Elwyn Smith of Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, who headed the committee that wrote the report, argued that "the question in all the matters we discussed is this: Is it or is it not an effective witness of Jesus Christ? Our conclusion was that the present practices of Bible-reading and prayer are not an effective witness." Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, who was re-elected without opposition to a third term as the church's Stated Clerk, concurred in the decision...