Word: weak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course on a tricky navigational leg of a routine bimonthly courier flight across Turkey to Iran (see map], trespassed in Soviet airspace, was forced by two Soviet fighters to land just inside Soviet territory. U.S. airmen wondered if powerful Soviet radio transmitters had not interfered with the relatively weak signal from the U.S. beacon at Van-and if the Russians had not set their rig up to fool the pilots, flying on top of an overcast, into crossing the frontier. Soviet propagandists began cranking up a new point to old charges at the U.N. and elsewhere that the USAF...
...centuries-old relationship between London and Paris has had more bad than good moments, and even in its present phase of partnership is marked by each nation's fear that the other will become either too strong-or too weak. For the past five months London has been eying Paris with especial nervousness. As senior man in office, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan had every right to expect that new Premier de Gaulle should make the first visit to him in London. Instead, last week, as a gesture of good will, Macmillan flew to Paris. Obviously pleased, protocol-conscious General...
...charm of this structure for geneticists comes from its variability. Each step between the helices can be made of either pair of bases pointing in either direction. If the spirals should be pulled apart (the chemical bonds between bases are weak), each spiral would be left with the four bases arranged in any sequence. If arranged meaningfully along the spiral, the bases could carry information in a four-symbol code, much like digits on the magnetic tape of an electronic computer...
...main walls, it seems, rest not on solid foundations, but on shifting dirt. Its timbers are rotting, the Cabinet room is hazardous, some floors are so weak that the number of guests invited to receptions have had to be cut. What No. 10 needs, said the White Paper, is nothing less than a complete "structural overhaul" at a cost of at least ?400,000 ($1,120,000). Once again sensible men could say that the most economical course would be to tear the whole place down. But as usual, even sensible men will agree in the end that London would...
...college in Tokyo, a coarse painter friend introduces Yozo to "the mysteries of drink, cigarettes, prostitutes, pawnshops and left-wing thought." For a young man whose will is as weak as his life drive, this strange combination paves the road to the lower depths. Yozo has an affair with a waitress, but fluffs his end of their suicide pact. Scrabbling for a living as a second-rate cartoonist, he is kept, for a time, by a woman journalist. To keep himself in cheap gin, the cartoonist sinks to pornography. Toward novel's end, Yozo is even ready to make...