Word: weaknesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cultural guilt as proof that they had been led astray. Intoned one: "The defendants were not only obedient tools, they were ideologically convinced tools. The defendants are victims of a foreign influence." Another made it even plainer where his sympathies really lay. "My client," he said, "is a weak-willed person [who] sold out to the Anglo-Americans. I ask for one year in prison for my client. If he does not like the way I am defending him, he ought to be frank...
...upset Yale 47-45). When Williams tried guarding him with one man, he racked up 52. No one had so completely mastered the one-handed hook shot, flipped while taking a stride away from the basket, as Tony Lavelli. His detractors pointed out that he was slow afoot and weak on defense, but Yalemen replied: "All Galli-Curci could do was sing." Tony Lavelli could shoot...
...Weak Westerlies. The mid-latitude westerlies, which normally blow across the country toward New England, were comparatively feeble this year. Their weakness allowed cold air to sweep down unchecked from Canada, keeping warm winds away from the western states and bringing them abnormally cold and stormy weather...
Modern surgeons do an expert job of operating on human bodies, Drs. Lipkin and Joseph conceded, but too often they ignore human emotions. Everything would be fine if only a patient could calmly accept the idea of an operation. But patients almost never do. Most people have psychological weak spots and most surgical patients are "apprehensive, anxious people, reacting emotionally rather than rationally." They fear death (many make their wills just before an operation), pain, disfigurement, loss of function. The fears are as much a part of the patient as his gallstones or diseased appendix...
Yale has one strong line (Bray, Ritz, Clapp) and two weak ones; the Crimson has three strong, well-balanced lines. If the first line can match the Yale starting trio goal for goal while the second and third lines build up a lead, then the 99th Harvard-Yale hockey game will go to Harvard. HARVARD YALE Yetman g Burns Carman ld Raines Greeley rd Hart Preston fw Ritz D Key c Bray Garrity rw Clapp...