Word: weak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...return followed the classic pattern of Latin American "revolutions." Every traditional element was present: a bold, shrewd Strong Man, a hard core of army malcontents, a weak government. Similar combinations have brought armymen to power in many other Latin countries (see box). In this case, it remained only for Batista & friends to write in the characteristically Cuban touches...
...discovery of 1,700 Government documents (some were top secret) in the New York office of the left-wing magazine; though McGranery was not involved in the controversial prosecution of the case, he subsequently belittled the importance of the documents, said the bungling of Government raiders led to a weak prosecution (of six persons arrested, none imprisoned, only two mildly fined...
...went to India to work quietly in Calcutta and Bombay as an obedient priest. War came, and he joined the R.A.F., not as a chaplain but as an aircraftman, since he believed that he could not, as a priest, exhort others to fight. But many operations had left him weak. He fell sick again and went back to South Africa...
Biggest surprise of all was the Crimson back line though it played weak, ragged games in Bermuda, it showed itself in this game at least as good as M.I.T. "Red" Wylie revealed himself as the stand-out, particularly in defense, where his low football tackles stopped at least three Tech scoring trys...
...Allies could have mustered twelve divisions), he is confident that Monty would have broken through had Ike turned him loose. The German generals are on Wilmot's side of the argument. Says Major General Blumentritt, Model's chief of staff: "Such a breakthrough . . . would have torn the weak German front to pieces and ended the war in the winter...