Word: heel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Captain Caitlin Hurley will also be counted on, as will junior Margaret Angell, sophomore Sarah Ellis and senior Jessica Mikszewski, who missed last season due to an Achilles Heel injury...
Captain Caitlin Hurley will also be counted on, as will junior Margaret Angell, sophomore Sarah Ellis and senior Jessica Mikszewski, who missed last season due to an Achilles Heel injury...
...American public at once enamored of Bob Dole's character and integrity and at the same time casting their future vote for President Clinton. Bob Dole's honesty, the moral fortitude he has cultivated through his many years of service to this country, has now become his Achilles heel. Every man has his fault, and honesty is Bob Dole...
...power is clout, like the thud of an iron heel. Influence is sway, like being rocked in a hammock. But like the grass in Carl Sandburg's poem, influence has a way of spreading until it overwhelms every bump in its path. Leonid Brezhnev had power. Andrei Sakharov had influence. Power: the FCC. Influence: Howard Stern. What this means is that influence generally gets the last laugh. Alexander Hamilton never attained the presidency. His philosophical antagonist Thomas Jefferson did. But the world has gone Hamilton's way. By most measures, the country we live in today more closely resembles...
...SHOULD NOT TRY TO CONTAIN OR appease China, the upstart superpower, without first exposing the latter's Achilles' heel [WORLD, March 25]. The overriding reason for Beijing's saber rattling during Taiwan's presidential election campaign is that China's leaders are scared of the ripple effect that Taiwan's march toward full-fledged democracy will have on its own 1.2 billion population. The masses, having seen Taiwan progress from a backward nation into a free, prosperous country, may demand to choose their own leaders through a similar election or a plebiscite on China's communist system. The only thing...