Word: weak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...advisers-including those from the U.S.-cautioned him to go slowly. You are too weak to fight now, they counseled. Invite negotiations; play for time. The advice was accepted. While soldiers and tanks moved through the tense streets of Saigon, the weanling government of the weanling state of South Viet Nam dickered and maneuvered to avert civil war and whittle down the warlords of the sects...
Should such a policy prevail, the U.S. and South Viet Nam would be committing themselves to a policy of partition, two Viet Nams-a strong, aggressive Communist Viet Nam nourished by Moscow and Peking; a weak, divided but free Viet Nam that will need for some time the pledges and help...
Britain had entered the war in defense of a free Poland. The U.S. and Britain in the Atlantic Charter had again emphasized, as a principle of world order, the right of self-determination for such distinct but relatively weak peoples as the Poles. When Stalin's returning armies drove the Germans out of Eastern Poland, he set up at Lublin a "provincial government" of Poland in rivalry to the Polish government, which had fled to London after the Hitler-Stalin invasions. The London Polish government was not a creature of Britain; it derived from the Poland created after World...
...line of witnesses testified that Benedetto was a hard worker and a good husband. "This man to me is not a murderer," testified Father Jeanjean, "but rather a suicide's accomplice. If I had had to judge him in the confessional, I would have considered him as a weak man who, like our Lord, bore the cross that had become too heavy for his shoulders." Judge Borricand approved the jury's verdict: not guilty...
...varsity's only other points came from Phil Burnaman's forfelt into the quarter-finals at 130. Burnaman, who usually wrestles at 137 was too weak to avoid a 5 to 0 decision in the quarters...