Word: weaker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Without size or strength, he must depend on skill to defeat his hellfire competition. "For someone strong it's easy to muscle it out there," Quintero explains. "But since I'm weaker than most of the throwers, I rely on technique...
...took part, after all, in the military intervention against us in 1918. We were invaded by Germany in World War II, at the cost of 20 million human lives. Then came the cold war. We have always lived under threat. In the nuclear arms race, we began as the weaker one. I can't remember a single important weapons system which was not introduced first by you and then by us. Right now, because of the Reagan Administration's rhetoric-and maybe it's more than just rhetoric-some of our military people and even some members...
...only field events that may be weaker are the weight throw and shotput. Junior Tom Schuler and senior Al Quintero will be competing, but the loss of Captain Lanny Tron to graduation will be felt...
...modesty. The Danish baroness Karen Blixen, who hid under a series of pseudonyms, did deserve the prize she never received. Other rewards came: public adulation, critical respect, worldwide royalties. But as Poet Judith Thurman makes clear in her scrupulous and elegant biography, the baroness also suffered tribulations that force weaker souls to despair or madness. "All sorrows can be borne," she declared, "if you put them into a story," and most of her 77 years were spent transmuting the tragic into the anecdotal...
...word, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote, "is the skin of a living thought." The flesh of slang is a little weaker than usual now. Why? For several reasons. Perhaps slang follows the economy and now finds itself a bit recessed...