Word: weak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This cavalier solution would amount to leaving Asia to the Communists, for weak countries cannot fight with dollars, untrained troops, and especially without the active support of the United Nations to redress the disparity in strength. That they who advocate this policy believe that nations either in the process of birth or taking their first steps would risk their national lives by hooting at, say, China when the United States and the UN has discarded them, is a sickening commentary on their approach to foreign policy. Scrapping collective security would only imperil the United States far more than at present...
...column, is a careful appraisal of Senator Lodge, written by former Dean of Harvard Law School, former Chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board, and leader of Cambridge's Plan E crusade, James M. Landis. Despite its thoroughness, though, and despite the distinction of its author, this letter has many weak points...
...Another weak point in this letter is Mr. Landis' clarion for party regularity. Control of the Senate, he says, depends on three seats; sound foreign policy demands a Democratic Senate; vote Democratic. This bit of logic ignores an important fact: Lodge has voted with Democrats on foreign policy as often as Kennedy, and each foolish Lodge vote can be matched with a Kennedy blunder...
...vaunted Crimson running attack ground out 220 yards, with three men--John Culver, Dick Clasby, and John Ederer--doing all the carrying. And the passing game, supposedly a weak point in the offense, clicked for two touchdowns, both on Clasby-to-Ederer passes...
Back in September no one thought that DeOrmond "Tuss" McLaughry's starting team, which boasted nine letter winners, would come into Cambridge winners of one game--that a poor showing against weak Rutgers. And nobody thought that while Dartmouth was losing three out of four, its opponents would score more than twice as many points...