Word: weak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Americans did not like the idea of the [July 20] deadline, and considered that it put Mendès-France in a weak position, you might as well know that the French people did like the idea of such a deadline, because that was something entirely new in our rotten politics. Our previous unimaginative statesmen did not 'know anything better than stalling. The risk taken by P. M.F. worked like a fresh wind in a dead man's house...
...This is a day of triumph for all the timorous at home and the wicked abroad who want Britain to be small and weak and to count for little," cried Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express. Last week in the House of Commons, Sir Winston Churchill, who in 1942 defiantly declared that he had not become Prime Minister "to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire," sat glum and with bowed head as his government announced that Britain was withdrawing its troops from Egypt...
Some criticism of Government statistics is justified, because they are far from perfect. Says Arthur F. Burns, head of the President's Council of Economic Advisers: "Although the construction industry is of strategic importance in our economy, statistical information about the industry is very weak . . . Prices of consumer durable goods entering into the Consumer Price Index are official or quoted prices; they are not 'actual' prices taking full account of variations in markdowns, discounts, trade-in allowances, or premiums and other forms of surcharges...
...little boy with a gun, a string of cars or a toy steamer, we are fascinated by the city. We like clamor, and the clamor becomes glamour. We become insensate to beauty-but beauty is a word that soon will be taboo. I only use it when I feel weak and foolish...
...strong helped the weak whenever they could," said one young French paratrooper, "but every 500 meters someone fell to the ground." Said a German legionnaire: "Of 400 men in my squad when we left Dienbienphu . . . (twelve words deleted by French HQ censor)." Said a Spanish legionnaire: "There were . . . (three words censored) among 390 men in my squad." And a second Frenchman added: ". . . (two words censored) of 290 in my squad died...