Word: weak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aggressive purposes. "I know something about . . . war," said Dwight Eisenhower, in a nationwide radio-TV speech, and he predicted an inevitable tragedy "if the peace-loving democratic nations again fearfully practice a policy of standing idly by while big aggressors use armed force to conquer the small and the weak...
...jazzmen play for fun, or spare change, and if they find the rat-race for contacts and publicity takes too much time, jazz fades out. A shortage of skilled players and the lack of practice time kills most chances for a well-rounded dixie group--a band without a "weak link." The missing "weak link" makes Gardner's group unique, and even here the talent is one third alien...
...schools these young Negro leaders "would get feelings of inferiority" and would not be such good leaders. At last, under questioning, Reid admitted that the five criteria had not been applied to Arlington's whites. "So," said an N.A.A.C.P. lawyer, "race was the factor." At last, in a weak, barely audible voice, Reid answered...
...recession had hit bottom and the FRB might have to tighten credit. Bond buyers saw the promise of higher interest ahead and dumped their holdings. The speculative bubble burst. As prices fell, the yields reached as high as 3! on Government bonds. The Government bond market turned so weak that when the Treasury floated a $16.3 billion issue of one-year certificates, the FRB had to support the market by buying $1.2 billion of it, thus adding to the credit supply. Then it tried to tighten credit by sopping up the extra funds and permitting its banks to boost their...
Blank Checks. Founded in 1859, Spotting Life began as a weak weekly imitation of one of the world's most colorful journals: Bell's Life in London. Zesty Founder John Bell began covering bare-knuckle prizefights in 1822, expanded his sheet to cover London low life from society scandals to East End bloodlettings. In 1886 Sporting Life bought Bell's copyright and was in turn bought in 1920 by Odhams Press Ltd., publisher of the Laborite Daily Herald (circ. 1,640,707) Sunday People...