Word: weaker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ends, but inside the tackles and on pass plays they ran into far less trouble. Working from a straight T with balanced line (as did Army) and a winged T, the Injuns unwrapped a highly efficient sophomore quarterback named Jim Miller, whose flat, hard throws had Army's weaker left side backers-up doing futile somersaults. Miller, supposedly the understudy of more experienced Gene Howard and Dick Brown, was certainly less adept at ball-handling but a far better passer than either. Brown and Howard contributed little more than a pair of 50-yard punts...
...little weaker now than we were last year," he admitted. "We're going with a lot of sophomores who are hustling well; but they're very green...
...Weaker Sex. In San Francisco, after a burglar lifted $140 from her cash register, Mrs. Helen Cassinelli felt his coat pocket, found he had no gun, snatched back her cash...
...They had gone on a spree. This theory grew weaker as the days wore on. MacLean's wife is pregnant; his two sons, aged seven and five, are ill with measles. He was proud of his rambling, wistaria-covered country house in Kent, had just ordered new wallpaper for the nursery...
...faced optimism, are apt to believe that the basic assets for social success are good will, a pretty wife, and perhaps a few funny stories. Potter, product of an older and more cynical order, is convinced that all social intercourse is in fact a merciless jungle struggle, where the weaker will be gobbled up like an anchovy canape by the man with the firmer grip on the conversation and the Martini glass. In his scholarly The Theory and Practice of Gamesmanship, or the Art of Winning Games Without Actually Cheating (TIME, Sept. 6, 1948), Evolutionist Potter brought this insight...