Word: heartedness
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IN HIS speech to the American people, the president said he had learned the lesson of Vietnam, that a half-hearted military effort is doomed to fail. But Bush forgot some of the other lessons of Vietnam: don't fight for ill-defined goals; don't obscure your war aims...
ROCKY V. In his last fight he beat up on the whole Soviet Union, and look what happened to them! This time Rocky Balboa's goal is more modest: to become the street-fighting champ of West Philly. Sylvester Stallone goes for the heartstrings, not the head butts, and the...
Thatcher disappointed feminists because they asked too much of her. She was a working mother from the beginning. Immediately after Thatcher gave birth to twins, she filled out applications to take the British bar examination. Critics called her cold-hearted for starting work right away and for not spending enough...
"I don't really like to go into anything half-hearted," she says. "I figured that I had to do what was right for me, so I quit the [track] team."
My mother indicated that I should try to wake her. After a half-hearted attempt to do so, the woman responded with a soft, almost inaudible groan.