Word: weak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ideologically, too, there are tensions between Peking and Moscow. Chinese Reds privately consider Khrushchev a waverer whose understanding of Marxism-Leninism leaves much to be desired. "The Russians are always blundering," one Chinese Communist loftily told British Journalist Dennis Bloodworth. "Weak Soviet policy was responsible for the Hungarian revolution and the trouble in Poland." Not having been afraid of differing from Stalin, Mao has never hesitated to differ from the Johnny-come-latelys now in authority in Moscow. The Russians officially proclaim Mao to be "a major Marxist-Leninist theoretician,'' but his writings are not required reading among...
Mechanically, the production is weak. The attempt to make Matisoff look bald makes him look like a victim of skull-fracture. The lights flicker at odd moments. The producers did not bother to procure a little boy for the messenger role. Happily enough, the almost dadaist spirit of the play accommodates any number of lapses like these, as long as the actors are as convincing as the current group...
...flashlight battery is weak, the (filament) in the bulb may still glow, but with only a dull red color...
...When a weak battery produces little current, the fine wire, or (filament) does not get very...
...varsity's chances for a repeat championship seem dim. Weak defense--a sporadic problem even last year--lack of experienced depth, and a shortness of practice time all weigh heavily against the squad. But most important, the quality of competition in the Ivy League has improved considerably this year...