Word: frailing
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...stamp of some great purpose. They conferred and dined at No. 10; they weekended with Winston Churchill in the country, where the cherry blossoms were coming out and spring green touched the trees; and the King & Queen had Sunday lunch with the visitors. Between frequent rests abed, frail Mr. Hopkins conferred with Lease-Lender W. Averell Harriman and the ministers-who counsel Churchill on Britain's policies and potentials. General Marshall passed many hours with keen, brisk General Sir Alan Francis...
After dark on the day of the Channel skirmish, the Germans sent another pack of speedsters against a British convoy in the North Sea. Again British destroyers blew two E-boats to flotsam, but this time the Germans fought back, spitting torpedoes. One torpedo punched the frail hull of the Vortigern, a 1,090-ton oldtimer, and she went down. The British patrol sloop Guillemot, a 580-tonner which can do little better than 20 knots, spotted an E-boat lying in ambush, crept up within 50 yards before the German crew woke up. The Guillemot sent...
...Boss Kelly who organized the Democratic convention that nominated Franklin Roosevelt for a third term in 1940. Pushing levers back in the wings, while frail Harry Hopkins did the stage-managing, Boss Kelly made the convention run like a 60-ton tank through a shantytown...
This image, of a frail, gravely serene, utterly courageous creature of the past, transporting across the immediate ruin of the human present the innocent and polyglot future, has exciting possibilities both for tear-jerking and for simple grandeur. Nevil Shute's modest abilities are at least honest and competent enough to make it a good story...
...Frail Invader, Strong Defense. As most people know, the syphilis spirochete is very delicate, lives only on moist surfaces, dies as soon as it dries up. It is killed by soap and water, and probably, said Dr. Moore, by contraceptive jellies...