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Word: weak (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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When is this Canada of mine going to learn that government help does not come without cost? It is indeed a weak and unimaginative industry that must turn to Ottawa every time its profits are threatened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 30, 1961 | 6/30/1961 | See Source »

Indeed, the Canadian publishing industry must be weak and sorely lacking if it cannot put forward a weekly as dynamic and educational as TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 30, 1961 | 6/30/1961 | See Source »

...gave the back an additional chance to heal. There was not much time for healing: after 31 supine hours, impatient John Kennedy got up out of his sick bed to say farewell to Ikeda, hold a three-hour crisis conference with his foreign-policy advisers on Berlin. Then, still weak but "feeling fine," he flew off to recover over a weekend at Glen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Up & Down | 6/30/1961 | See Source »

...theory that hard liquor would only bring out the savage in the black man, South Africa's white bosses for years have sternly forbidden intoxicants to the Africans. All the natives are allowed is thick, weak "kaffir beer" sold for seven cents per pint at government beer halls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: Drink for All | 6/23/1961 | See Source »

Like Capital Airlines, which earlier this month merged with United Air Lines, Northeast is in part a victim of CAB's ill-advised attempts to strengthen weak airlines by granting them additional routes. To shore up Northeast, which began as a regional carrier in New England, the board five years ago granted the line the right to fly the blue-ribbon New York-Miami route, which Eastern and National Airlines were already flying. Against such entrenched lines, Northeast could not attract enough passengers to make money for itself, and it cut so deeply into Eastern's and National...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aviation: The Merger Broker | 6/23/1961 | See Source »

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