Word: frailing
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...Then frail, 65-year-old Composer Kodaly himself, looking like an El Greco with his sunken face and pointed white beard, took the podium to lead the orchestra and two choruses in the work which first won him fame. When it was over, Education Minister Gyula Oretetay presented the composer with a gold-leafed baton, and bull-necked Communist War Minister Peter Veres, a self-educated peasant who makes a point of never wearing a necktie on formal occasions, gave Kodály a wreath of fresh Hungarian wheat...
...vaulted hall of Florence's Palazzo Strozzi, one day last week, art scholars and critics from all over the world were waiting. Through a tiny oaken door stepped a frail, bearded little man, Bernhard Berenson, the world's greatest authority on Italian Renaissance art. Bobbing and nodding his white beard to the ovation, he hurried, with staccato steps, to the center of a long table. There, Italy's Minister of Education Guido Gonella presented him with two bronze medals, one four centuries old, the other struck especially in his honor. After the minister's speech, cheers...
...small, frail man," Mydans wrote. "He is intense, nervous and understanding. He is overwhelmed by the gifts he is receiving from America and wants to do the most he can with the funds. He explains, however, that with all the sickness and poorness of the people around him, 'it is difficult not to give to people in great want. I can not help it,' he says, 'but sometimes I feel it is more important to give to the sick and poor than to build my church...
President Einaudi had assets that outweighed the lack of a black suit. The frail 74-year-old economist was a nonparty man who (as Minister of the Budget) had masterminded devaluation of the lira last winter, checked Italy's inflation. He was the one man that Premier de Gasperi's Christian Democrats and their main parliamentary allies-the Saragat Socialists and the Republicans-could agree on. And, though he was antiCommunist, even the Reds joined the applause when Einaudi (in his grey suit) was sworn...
...University of Southern California's newest candidate for "world's fastest human" was just, beginning to warm up last week. Unlike the late Charlie Paddock, who was chunky, 23-year-old Mel Patton is tall (6 ft.) and frail (147 lbs.). In Los Angeles' huge Coliseum, against a brisk breeze, Patton sped the 100 yards in 9.7 (three-tenths of a second off the world's record which he shares with seven others...