Word: weak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...explicit and concentrated statement of De Gaulle's plans for Europe was delivered at a state banquet at the Augustusburg Castle in Briihl-ironically, once the residence in exile of Louis XIV's Cardinal Mazarin, an early evangelist of France's longstanding policy of keeping Germany weak and divided. "Every word in the speech is worthy of exegetical study, like a Biblical text," exclaimed one of Adenauer's close advisers...
...Leslie Caron) is a loyal, long-suffering, sweet little wife who is pitied by everybody-especially herself. Dreary little people in a dreary little manana republic; sick of the heat, sick of the natives, sick of themselves; each blaming the other for the mess they are in, both too weak and lazy to clean up or clear...
...have to go with Weatherly-she's the all-round boat," said Briggs Cunningham, who skippered Columbia to victory over Britain's Sceptre in the 1958 America's Cup. "It's hard to think that the cup committee would go for a boat as weak as Nefertiti has proved in light...
Major Lawrence Bailey, 38, who had been assistant U.S. military attache in the Laotian capital before his capture in March 1961, was still weak from injuries suffered when he bailed out of a plane that crashed with seven other U.S. servicemen in a mountainous eastern province of Laos. Unable to walk without assistance, and barely able to talk, Bailey said that he had been locked alone in a "blackcell" for the past eleven months, was subjected to "continuous questioning." The only other U.S. serviceman released by the Pathet Lao was Sergeant Orville Ballenger, 28, a member of a U.S. Army...
...last week. The total-6,685,000 cars turned out, a rise of 23.6% from last year-was the second-best in history. But memories of the record 1955 model year (7,136,000 cars) raised a troubling question: Would too big a year be followed by a weak sales year? Detroit doesn't think so. Unlike 1955, there has been little overselling or price slashing this year, and inventories are lean...