Word: frailing
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...frail hopes of New Haven shareholders promptly withered. The price of New Haven common fell 50% overnight. Professional speculators took ICC at its word, with the result that Wall Street saw some strange phenomena: Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific 6% preferred with eight months' earnings of $20.43 a share sold for 75?; St. Louis Southwestern common with earnings of $19.69 a share hung around $4 (bid); Missouri Pacific with earnings of $19.06 a share sold...
...Glass Key, Ladd plays cold, frail, brainy dandy Ed Beaumont, who uses his wits and risks his life to help a friend out of a tight place. The friend is naive Politician Paul Madvig (Brian Donlevy). The plot revolves about the doings of 1) Veronica Lake-with-her-hair-up, who is playing Madvig for a sucker but has a glad eye for Friend Beaumont; 2) her father, a corrupt politician, Madvig's candidate for governor; 3) her playboy brother, who gets murdered; 4) a gelid gambling boss (Joseph Calleia) who tries to pin the murder on Madvig...
...sculler was on a parallel course with the Boonie and was racing along in a competitive spirit when he caught a crab, and his craft was turned broad-side to the onrushing Boonie. Blinded by the late afternoon sun, the captain of the larger vessel failed to notice the frail ship directly in his course, and they met with a rending of sculls...
...overweight, underweight, or for some other reason have hesitated to make your contribution, hesitate no longer. Very frail people are giving their blood regularly every two months with no ill effects...
...months he has been in a tiny padded cell, this frail little man with glittering eyes and a gentle smile-five hours a day, four days a week. He is not crazy, just listening. The man is Hungary's eminent composer and music scholar, Bela Bartok (Piano Concertos, Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion Instruments, MikroKosmos). The cell is a phonograph-listening room at Columbia University. He is listening to some 2,500 double-sided aluminum phonograph discs on which is impressed the largest recorded collection of Yugoslav folk songs ever made...