Word: kneed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there is one problem with this book, however, it is the chapter on China--problem, because Shaplen has decided not to write one. In his conclusion, where he assesses China's impact on the surrounding nations in a scant ten pages. Shaplen offers us a weak-kneed rationalization. To discuss the mainland, he insists, would require an entire book. But elsewhere, he eagerly tackles Japan in less than 100 pages and the Philipines in even fewer. While one might expect this--American reporters' access to the mainland has been extremely limited--it leaves a gaping hole. A Turning Wheel...
...lucidly and engaging his listeners with a tone of careful sincerity. He is always controlled, raising his voice only for emphasis. Yet he comes across as a vibrant orator, striking an emphatic rhythm like an oldtime Democrat. His Texan images are simple but colorful: the stubborn steer, the weak-kneed politician, the businessman cowering in fear of the Government. Connally has the earthiness of a backland tenant farmer's son and the urbanity of a successful international financier. He is clever enough to be self-deprecating at times, but he radiates such an enormous sense of self-confidence and self...
...when we see it," one network censor told a writer. By the time the court hands down a ruling in the Writers Guild suit, everybody's trying to dump off the idea on everybody else. You almost wish that Cowan's side had lost the case. Maybe his weak-kneed call for "more modest regulatory reforms" would have more punch to it. Cowan tells us that "while it would be technically simple to establish a system that relied less heavily on advertising, the opposition from advertisers and the broadcasting industry would almost certainly make such a proposal politically unacceptable...
...choked her. "I decided to submit to him, to what he wanted." John Rideout admitted that they had been arguing, but he told a different story: "She hit me first. She slapped me. I grabbed hold of her arms. She slapped me again. Then I felt pain. She had kneed me in the groin." Soon afterward, he said, they made up, kissed and had sex. "It was voluntary on her part," he insisted...
...claims that John chased her through a field near their apartment building, dragged her inside and raped her as their 2½-year-old daughter watched and cried, "Mommy, Mommy!" Defense Lawyer Charles Burt admitted that sexual intercourse took place, but he denied that John had used force. Greta kneed her husband in the groin, Burt told the jurors, and John then slapped her in the face. The defense portrayed the young couple's rocky four-year relationship as "quarrel, make up, have...