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Word: weak (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wrath was prompted by a comment Ford made at the award of the National Medals for Science earlier this month. According to the laureates, Ford implied that his administration was responsible for the nation's Nobel sweep, and that this was clear evidence that the country is not a weak one, despite Jimmy Carter's claims to the contrary...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: Keeping Ford Honest On Research | 10/30/1976 | See Source »

Brown weekend festivities begin Friday, when the Harvard cross country team duels opponents from Princeton and Yale at Franklin Field in Boston. The Crimson harriers already disposed of a weak Brown cross country team, despite a torrential downpour and a slew of disqualifications when Harvard runners took their shirts...

Author: By Marc M. Sadowsky, | Title: SPORTS | 10/28/1976 | See Source »

...Dupuis cited other reasons for the team's weak offensive showing. "We stopped making the plays and started reacting to what Brown was doing," she said yesterday. "When we took shots across the goal mouth, there was no one there to knock the ball in. Earlier this year, everyone went pall-mall for the ball. Today we were cautious...

Author: By David Clarke, | Title: Stickwomen Battle to 0-0 Tie Crimson Fails to Show Brown Old Fire | 10/28/1976 | See Source »

Fairbank disagreed on this point, saying that China has a need to shore up its weak relationship with the U.S., rather than drift any closer to the Soviets...

Author: By David J. Wlody, | Title: Terrill and Fairbank, at Kirkland House, Differ on Future U.S.-China Relations | 10/28/1976 | See Source »

...childish dependency on his wife; at the same time Marchbanks, rejected by Candida as the less needy, internalizes her gift to Morell as his own vision, in the process exchanging childhood for artistic maturity. In Candida, the "best" man fails to win; instead, the meek--or at least the weak--inherits the woman, if not the resolutely non-socialist earth, while the poet continues to dream his dreams...

Author: By Julia M. Klein, | Title: The Meek's Inheritance | 10/28/1976 | See Source »

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