Word: weak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foreign reporting in U.S. dailies is generally weak, it is still better than coverage of the U.S. by the foreign press. "In Britain," says New York Herald Tribune London Bureau Chief Joseph Newman, one of the reasons that "anti-American sentiment is growing [is] the ignorance of an ill-and underinformed British public regarding the causes and facts of daily developments in the U.S. . . . With few exceptions, the British press has whittled its foreign news down to the vanishing point." British readers are unable "to follow the major events in the United States and to express any intelligent opinions about...
...these discussions, the allied leaders, working with no strict agenda, must be careful not to aid Russia by dissension in their own ranks. If the three chiefs cannot agree, however, it is likely that Russia will keep the offense in the diplomatic war, leaving the allies in a continued weak position of counter attack...
From the crescents of red plush seats, Deputy after Deputy went to the rostrum to speak the doubts of a nation too weak to defend itself, too proud to acknowledge its weakness even to itself, too fearful to heal it with an arrangement which permits Germany to rearm. As usual, the men on the extreme right, the Gaullists, and those on the extreme left, the Communists, rose in unequivocal opposition. But the bulk of France's parliament formed into a walking, talking tapestry of the confusion that threads through all France's social, religious and party lines...
...team last year, but fell down to the C team. Paul Garrigue is, in Barnaby's eyes, the most improved player on the squad. Last year he was the doormat to the team. Whoever beat him could usually make the team. He was brilliant defensively, but weak on his attack. This year he has picked up a variety of serves and mixes up his volleys with new corner shots. A victory in the eighth position means as much to a team as a first-man victory, and Barnaby sees Garrigue as a particularly strong point-getter in the eighth spot...
...Bulldogs, who made a weak showing here last year, took advantage of several fumbles; but even without breaks, the passing of ace quarterback Glenn Loucks and the running of halfback Dennis McGill would have easily been enough for victory, over what is considered a strong Harvard freshman team...