Word: weak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...control of party cadres, to Old Bolshevik Nikita Khrushchev. In Stalin's day, when men began growing too big, he handled them as Hercules did the giant Antaeus: he lifted them up and kept their feet off the ground, whereupon, having lost touch with their roots, they became weak enough to destroy. Beria, presumably, may be doing the same with Malenkov...
...Babson team, usually weak, is expected to be no stronger this season...
...leaves a weak and divided Korea, if it lets Red China into the U.N., it will serve notice on all Asians that the Communists are winning the struggle for Asia, and millions of Asians will drift to the Communist banner. But a Korean truce does not have to be that kind of truce, either in its terms or its enforcement...
...quick thrust, his men drove 50 miles into Yunnan. The Communists counterattacked and drove Li's men pell-mell back into Burma, but did not follow up their victory. Li Mi licked his wounds, lived off the land, extended his control over east Burma (see map). The weak Burmese government-which had won its independence only five years before from the British-was too busy fighting Karen rebels and two different camps of local Communists to deal with Li Mi's men. Growing stronger, Li Mi extended his activities west of the Salween River...
More feeble by far than the meek and the weak...