Word: weak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Weak Punt...
...McCraw let the winning run on when he juggled a throw from Ken Boyer. A few minutes later second baseman Don Buford tossed a double play relay into the dugout. The Sox weak bats bowed meekly to Phil Ortega collecting only four hits...
Looking toward the future (the regular season starts with Lafayette this Saturday), it seems that the Crimson's trouble spots are a weak offensive line and a defense that just can't seem to get together...
...Board of Trade served a legitimate purpose, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes sagely commented that when competent men engage in speculation, it is "the self-adjustment of society to the probable." But he added that its pervasive peril surfaces when "the success of the strong induces imitation by the weak, and incompetent persons bring themselves to ruin." Incompetent speculators lack, somehow, the sang-froid of an emotionless Baruch or the attributes of another successful pre-Depression speculator, Joseph P. Kennedy. Old Joe succeeded in the Great Bull Market of the '20s and magnificently survived the crash, suggested a friend, because...
...Garden of Earthly Delights, she takes Clara from the filth and mis ery of migrant camps through a period as a shopgirl and finally into avaricious and vindictive middle age. Devoured by love for the men in her life and, in turn, obsessively devouring her weak bastard son, Clara eventually drifts into madness rather than give up her fierce search: "If nobody gives me what I want, I'll steal it. I want somethin'-I'm goin' to get it." Only in the last 50 or 60 pages of the book does the author loosen...