The Fat Years Not too long ago, as one trustee put it, a hospital "had to be awfully weak or stupid to lose money."

"Coffeegate," by comparison, is awfully weak tea.

"I think, Cassi, that smelling Thomas's cologne in the middle of the night is awfully weak evidence."

And she is, too - and awfully weak, yet obstinate in a kind of dim way.

But there's a point beyond which chance is an awfully weak explanation.

"You must think me awfully weak."

The boy was conscious, but he was awfully weak.

That hole at center was going to be awfully weak.

She must be awfully weak or she'd pluck something better from our minds than a replay of an old Sleeping Beauty fairy tale.

That left the Saudi initiative looking awfully weak.