Word: weakly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...share a 15-by-15-foot room, the daily ration consists of two cups of cassava, a starchy, sawdust-like root. When Wilde visited there, a child had just died-it was a year and a half old and weighed no more than eight pounds. Its mother was too weak to brush the flies off the body. "This is a children's war," said the Rev. Jack Finucane, one of 100 Holy Ghost Fathers who are caring for the sick and the destitute. "At the moment there's little we can do but pray to God to save...
...Anesthesia. The children at Umuaka are sad, misshapen creatures, their legs dangling like loose strings, their bellies bloated by malnutrition, their skin bleached by sores, their eyes wide and pleading. Some are too weak to walk and have to be dragged along by friends. Out in the lush countryside, in some of the mud-walled villages, the crisis is worse. When one of the Catholic priests visits he is immediately surrounded by haggard faces begging for medicine, food, anything. At the Seventh-day Adventist Hospital in Okpala, a sign at the gate reads "No Vacancy." At Queen Elizabeth Hospital...
...regime of General Aref, who took over in 1966 after his predecessor and brother Abdul Salem Aref died in a mysterious helicopter crash, the country suffered from so much corruption that the Premier, Lieut. General Taher Yahya, was widely known as "the Thief of Baghdad." A poor administrator and weak boss, Aref bore the additional stigma of last year's defeat in the Six-Day War with Israel. He offended many citizens by decreeing further delays in Iraq's decade-long "transition" from military rule to parliamentary democracy, seemed unable to get the oil-rich economy moving. Chief...
Church simply broadcasts his message on a 1,000 watt transmitter near Barrow and Herbert acknowledges by tapping out the letter "R" for a few minutes on the one field radio that still operates. Every once in a while, a few of Herbert's weak signals, the only contact between these four men and the rest of the world, penetrates the radio noise...
...Mozart piece got off to a rather weak start when the cellist's music dropped to the floor. With great aplomb, Schneider leaned down to pick it up, commenting, "Well done." During the first movement, Allegro, certain motifs played by the violinist were to be echoed by the violist, who, in contrast, failed to match the agility and lightness of Schneider's playing. The group did, however, make very effective transitions and tempo changes. Played with apparent quickness and ease, the Menuetto Allegretto had an incomparable dance-like quality. The final Allegro moved well and provided an excellent ending...