Word: weaker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days it was touch & go for Roger Brodie, the bigger but weaker of the skull-joined Siamese twins, separated in an operation that made medical history (TIME, Dec. 29). Roger continued to exist in a deep coma, but that was all. Late one night last week he died. At the University of Illinois' Neuropsychiatric Institute in Chicago, doctors listed pressure on the vital centers at the base of the brain as one cause of death. Actually, the wonder was not what killed 16-month-old Roger but how he had stayed alive so long...
...have the money and manpower to benefit from the two-platoon game, were in favor of the change. Said Oklahoma's Bud Wilkinson: "It's in the best interests of the game. The two-platoon system has a tendency to make big teams bigger and little teams weaker." Colorado Mines' Coach Fritz Brennecke saw other benefits: "It will reduce the pressure on recruiting and finances . . . Everyone will have to know how to block and tackle...
Actually, there would be no jihad. The Koranic doctrine-which once spelled unremitting, no-quarter battle between the Abode of Islam1 and the Abode of War until Islam triumphed-has softened to a practical acceptance of co-existence of Moslem and infidel. As the Moslem world grew weaker, fanatics called louder & louder for jihad, but met less & less response. When the degenerate Turkish Sultan-Caliph proclaimed a jihad against the Allies in 1914, it was cynically dubbed the "Holy War Made in Berlin." It was the last real jihad and an utter failure...
Brooks said that under the Baur formula it is almost certain that New England will have a cold winter when the west to east air circulation over the North Atlantic is weaker than usual...
...which would appear to throw an invidious light upon the clamor across the street at Harvard. Can't the boys take it? Or is this merely a new item to add to the data in the old debate about the weaker sex? --The Boston GLOBE...