Word: weaker
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Women playing lacrosse? Hockey? Women tackling each other in rugby and mixing it up in the scrum? Women running marathons? Small wonder that fathers, husbands and friends worry about the physical strains that the supposedly weaker sex is undergoing these days. Relax, fellas: there is little to be concerned about. Women are well suited to take part in rugged athletics. Indeed, women hold many long-distance swimming records for both sexes and have run men into the ground during ultramarathon races 50 miles long. Says Dr. Joan Ullyot, a physiologist at San Francisco's Institute of Health Research...
Trying to take a more balanced view, the commissioner said that, on the plus side, the signing of free agents has generated additional off-season publicity for baseball and allowed certain weaker franchises, notably California and Texas, to build contending teams...
...victims of this aggressive defensiveness are the Socialists. They emerged from the battle with only a slightly larger electoral base than the C.P., they won fewer new seats than the Communists, their organization is far weaker, the strategy on which they had counted for their return to power as the dominant party of the Left is in ruins thanks to their ally, and they have no promising alternative course. "Objectively," in March 1978 as in May 1968, the French C.P. powerfully helped the regime...
...less persuasive. He accepts Daley's atavistic brand of leadership as not merely effective, but necessary. He does not pause to wonder whether having potholes filled quickly is worth dictatorship by a corrupt machine. He gives scant attention to the hallmark of successful tribalism: suppression of all weaker tribes. He seems not to recall that other cities from time to time, such as La Guardia's New York and Philadelphia during the Clark-Dilworth period, have managed to combine decency and effective government...
...Israelis also wanted to "flex their muscle on the weaker links of Arab national contingency," and to end the current move toward national reconciliation in Lebanon, Maksoud said...