Word: toothless
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...major surprise of L'Affaire Greenpeace has been how aggressively the French press has pursued the story. As watchdogs of government, French newspapers and magazines historically have been rather toothless. Though a few publications, notably the satirical weekly Le Canard Enchaine, occasionally have sniffed out scandal in high office, serious French journalism, by and large, favors analysis and ideological commentary over investigative digging. This time, however, periodicals ranging from the left-of-center daily Le Monde to the conservative newsweekly L'Express joined Le Canard Enchaine in unraveling, bit by bit, what has been dubbed Underwatergate...
...pointed to a new form of containment, a kind of ex post facto containment: harassment of Soviet expansionism at the limits of empire. There is an echo here of the old 1950s right-wing idea of "rolling back" Communism. But with a difference. This is not the reckless--and toothless--call for reclaiming the core Soviet possessions in Eastern Europe, which the Soviets claim for self-defense and, more important, which they are prepared to use the most extreme means to retain. This is a challenge to the peripheral acquisitions of empire...
...they have recruited an Edmonton policeman, Floyd Whitney, for a practice session. "You're the target today, eh?" one of the stubbly giants greets Whitney reassuringly, as the Stanley Cup champions slide sleepily onto their indoor pond. Despite a proliferation of Europeans, hockey players still tend to be white, toothless Canadians from small, picturesque places, who skated to grammar school on iced-over footpaths until diverted during high school to the big city, where they enjoy drinking beer and occasionally throwing each other through plate glass windows...
...Democratic presidential candidate, Walter Mondale, before a single caucus or primary had been held. The goal: to establish labor early on as the decisive element in the Democrats' bid for the White House. "If we do not do what we propose to do, we shall be reviled as toothless and irrelevant," said AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland at the time. "If we succeed, we shall be condemned for daring to aspire to a share of power in our society...
After dropping a tough 7-4 decision to Dartmouth last weekend, a loss which ended a three-season winning streak, the ruggers bounced back to whip the toothless Tigers into submission...