Word: frailness
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Even with the effort to limit the demands upon his time, there were fears that Mandela would be overtaxed. His crowded American itinerary would test the stamina of a presidential campaigner, much less a frail-looking 71-year-old recovering from surgery to remove a benign cyst from his bladder. Mandela's arrival in New York from Montreal had to be delayed by two hours to give him more time to rest...
...since 1947 -- Stern remains a melancholy outsider with strong immigrant convictions. "No person Argentine by birth, a Jew alive to hear of the Holocaust could march in the jackboots of authority without intense self-doubt; better to keep his voice among the voices, to speak out daily for these frail liberties, so misunderstood, whose existence, far more than any prosecution, marked us all as decent, civilized, as human...
After 17 years underground, they pop up to the surface by the zillions, covering large areas with a crunchy carpet of five-eyed, frail-winged critters, shedding their skins, singing like drunken maniacs and mating with an abandon that renders the word orgy insufficient...
...100th birthday of Ho Chi Minh, the man who fought the Japanese, the French, the Americans and his own countrymen to win an independent, unified nation. For the past month, Hanoi has played host to thousands of visitors, foreign and Vietnamese alike, as they paid homage to the frail little man with a will of iron. The pilgrims move slowly past Ho's body lying on a glass-enclosed platform in the neo- Stalinist marble mausoleum, stopping only for a short, formal...
Within a month the books started arriving -- by the thousands. Soon Lansky was spending most of his time -- most of the next five years, in fact -- behind the wheel of borrowed or rented vans, collecting books from elderly donors who were too frail to pack and mail their books. Lansky no longer does the driving; a network of nearly 100 volunteers around the U.S. and Canada now handle most of the collecting. "We always expect the deluge to slow down," says Lansky. "Yet we're still getting 600 or 700 volumes a week." Late last year he visited half...