Word: weak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doctor can inject a dye opaque to X rays at the precise spot where an arterial abnormality is suspected and see the vessels clearly outlined on the screen of a fluoroscope. It may be possible, said Dr. Hilal, to use the catheter to inject substances to seal off weak spots in ballooned-out arteries, or to inject anti-cancer drugs into brain tumors...
...Staff were unanimous in calling for immediate military action," Bobby writes. "When the President questioned what the response of the Russians might be, General LeMay assured him there would be no reaction." At a congressional briefing, Arkansas Senator J. William Fulbright also preferred direct military action to "the weak step" of a blockade. As one of the principal debaters, U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson went to the other extreme, advocating appeasement of the Russians by abandoning the Guantánamo naval base in Cuba and dismantling missile sites in Turkey and Italy. Without elaboration, Bobby reports that "we all spoke...
...Yardlings have won their first three games against weak squads from Tufts, BU, and MIT. But Exeter has a strong backfield, Getchell said, which might contain the Crimson's high-scoring offense...
Another question in today's game should be the Crimson's defense. The backfield has not yet been pressed this season. Weak opposition offenses have managed only once to penetrate the Harvard defense for a score...
Nearly all the poems deal with a character named Henry, who is described as anarchic, lustful, huffy, exasperated, wicked, powerful, shy, obsessed, mad, weak, and many other things. Mr. Berryman says that Henry is "not the poet, not me," but we can safely assume that Henry is a projection of Berryman. Indeed one of the major forces behind the Dream Songs is the tension between Henry (Berryman) as subject, poet, public man, and lonely soul. Henry appears as "I," "he," and "you," sometimes he comes in black-face, and once as a sheep...