Word: frail
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...decision political in nature. The Supreme Court should never have opened itself up to such accusations; if the majority wanted to guarantee the end of the Florida recount, they ought to have structured their argument around a convincing legal precedent - rather than depending on such a transparent and frail political maneuver and then trying to disguise it as a matter...
...this perception of breast cancer that all people do when you don't know about it: bald, sick, dying, thin, frail," Delaney-Smith said. "I had that picture of that's what was going to happen...
...told, Homer Bennett has lived in 14 different foster homes, seldom staying in one longer than a year. At one point, he did get to stay with his maternal grandmother, but she was frail, elderly and unable to care for Homer and Frankie. So the brothers went back into state care, where they were separated and placed in different homes...
...burden of raising kids of imprisoned moms often falls on the frail shoulders of elderly relatives. Tiffany Barrett's grandmother has cancer, yet she has been taking care of Barrett's two kids while undergoing chemotherapy treatment. "She's told me I better hurry up and get out of here because she doesn't know how much longer she can hold out," says Barrett, 23, who has served three years on drug charges at Hernando Correctional in Florida. She rides the bus to Reading Family Ties in Miami once a month so Chevas, 6, and Chev'Qavia, 4, can have...
...this freedom to break the silence, even of death, even when--in the depths of our darkest loneliness--we have no clear idea of why we reach out to one another with these frail, perishable chains of words. In the black chamber of the submarine, Kolesnikov noted, "I am writing blindly." Like everyone else...