Word: weak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Photo Finish, by the triply talented Peter Ustinov (writer, director, and star), cleverly places an 80-year-old man beside his onstage 60-, 40-, and 20-year-old selves with amusing and ironic results. Ustinov's consummate mugging shores up he weak spots...
Perhaps because of his weak chin, perhaps because he is unromantically short (5 ft. 7 in.), Tormé realized, he had tried to be frighteningly manly. He made a brave show of it, dated Ava Gardner, collected guns, swooped around town on a motorcycle, swore a lot, got tough with nightclub owners, insulted customers-but all to no avail. "Most women who have dug my music have thought I was a little doll," he says grimly, also recalling that his manager once told him, "With your baby face, nobody cares about your opinions...
...Harvard squash team of Bill Morris, Lou Williams, Paul Sullivan, Doug Walter, and Terry Robinson had been playing with good luck on its side in the U.S.S.R.A. national championships in Detroit. The team had drawn two weak teams in the first rounds--Detroit and Ontario--and had easily beaten them Friday; Saturday morning the squad edged heavily favored, first-seeded Philadelphia...
...York City, thousands of adults complained of flu-some of them rightly so, said the city health department after the presence of Asian virus had been confirmed. More than 100 children in one institution were affected. Predictably, some patients, who were already weak when the flu struck them down, contracted a second (bacterial) infection and pneumonia. As a result, the city's death rate rose, but not nearly as much as it had in the flu epidemics...
...Brown meet traditionally provides a breather before Yale, but the varsity hardly had to breathe deeply to beat the weak Brown squad...