Word: weak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hire nonpolitical technical and professional men for the choice jobs formerly saved for party members. The purge brought at least one other improvement: an end to the tedious weekly Communist pep talks formerly required in every factory and business establishment. The party rank and file, presumably, is still too weak to be entrusted with propagandizing...
...about: he was accused of accepting money and other favors for his vote to grant Miami's Channel 10 television franchise to a National Airlines subsidiary. The House subcommittee let Mack read a 4,000-word statement, handled him gently for a while, then cuffed him sharply-and weak Richie Mack left the hearing room a badly shaken...
Coach Bob Kiphuth of Yale has again put together a superb team, undoubtedly the best in the East, but which will probably not win the NCAA championships at the end of the month. In the Eastern Intercollegiate League they are overwhelmingly powerful, having little difficulty trouncing both weak teams and strong ones like Army, Dartmouth, and they will decisively defeat the varsity this afternoon...
...this season, the varsity hockey team has had some unfortunate experiences with mid-week breathers, such as Dartmouth and Northeastern. Tonight the Crimson will face another one of these games against a weak Princeton sextet which has clinched last place in the Ivy League hockey race...
...Federal Trade Commission, which is supposed to supervise all advertising claims, it, too, came in for its share of criticism. The Congressmen accused FTC of failing "to approach the problems of false and misleading advertising with vigor and diligence," called its actions "weak and tardy." In answer, the FTC said that it had scheduled a conference of cigarette manufacturers to develop uniform standards for testing cigarettes...