Diana Pullein-Thompson, who has died aged 90, was the author of 30 pony books – ripping yarns, full of adventure, in which plucky young heroines overcome daunting challenges and turn feeble nags into champions.
The question is whether this robustness will now be pursued or whether it will turn feeble when faced by Israel's determination to control events in the occupied territories.However, perhaps startled by America's readiness to join in, and indeed by the G8 countries finding time to turn their attention to Palestine, Israeli determination is sounding less unyielding than usual.
The experimental treatment developed by researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Insturned, Harvard Medical School, turned weak and feeble old mice into healthy animals by regenerating their aged bodies.
A hasty, improvised set of reforms and an economy geared almost exclusively to armaments turned the feeble efforts of 1941 into the vast setpiece battles from the summer of 1943, every one of which the Soviet side won.
Rainwater picks up carbon dioxide from the air, turns into feeble acid and dissolves the rock.
The more Kureishi turned inward, the feebler the creative dividends.
He made some feeble excuses that turned out to be untrue, and blamed election clerks in Utah for his troubles.
The woman boxer who leaked the pictures claimed she did so in order to save his life – a feeble defence that turned out to be curiously prescient.
The Feebles can be turned, twisted, and mangled in ways that human bodies can't—as demonstrated by the Muppet contortionist who accidentally gets his head stuck in his rectum.
"He cried, but it was feeble and he gradually turned cold.
As it turns out, these feeble-minded acts are, by some, attributed to something called "Pregnancy Brain".
