Word: kneed
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...sure, fabric can't talk or cause a scandal or convulse the blogosphere. And maybe there is something fusty and old hat in caring too much about the provenance of a silk shantung or getting all weak-kneed about a suit made of cellophane-backed wool. But the art of couture glamour is ultimately about the connoisseurship of material, and there have always been designers who knew this and obsessively attended to the fabric of fashion...
...Bush Administration was proffering a zero-penalty return to the previous nuclear deals Pyongyang had flagrantly broken-but with additional goodies, and a provisional free pass for any nukes produced since 2002. With this overture, the Bush team embraced the very approach it had once mocked as weak-kneed and "Clintonesque...
...issue you care about ahead of the November election is going to be packaged as a "security" issue. Worried about flat wages or higher taxes? Republicans and Democrats alike want to talk to you about "economic security." Angry about Bush's handling of the war in Iraq or weak-kneed Democrats getting in the way of his domestic surveillance programs? Both sides have a message about national security...
...played well in 2000 when her opponent, former Rep. Rick Lazio (R-NY), nearly attacked her during the pair’s first debate or when her approval soared to all-time highs across the nation post-Monica. As the country saw in the downfall of the weak-kneed Kerry and the staid Gore to the cowboy Bush, though, the way to the White House is paved in images of determination and strength, particularly in times of indefinite war. In a Gallup July 20 poll on Clinton’s “strengths and weaknesses,” only...
Fastball, fastball, slider. He threw early strikes, swinging strikes, and then nipped at the corners until then—there—broke the tight inside slider that left six Tigers knock-kneed and confounded. Five of Cole’s strikeout victims walked away after called third strikes...