Word: weak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ulen commented that "it is quite fortunate to swim against Penn at this time of the year rather than against some stronger team." The Quakers are expected to be better than the weak M.I.T. swimmers, yet not as good as the Army squad, which was defeated by the Crimson, 58 to 28, last month...
...Undergraduate Athletic Council has, however, a long list of conditions which a sport must satisfy before consideration is given to such a promotion. Among these is the stipulation that there be sufficient spectator interest, the only area in which the lightweight crew has a weak case...
...advocates argue that a war plan carefully thought through, carefully approved by civilians both in Pentagon and Congress, would take maximum advantage of the strength of all the services and of the U.S. economy. As for the man on horseback, say general staff advocates, if U.S. institutions are that weak, then the nation is in worse trouble than it ever reckoned. A career Army officer inhabits the White House, with the authority of Commander in Chief, and no President has operated in closer harmony with constitutional concepts. Moreover, all the general staff systems currently contemplated would strengthen, not weaken civilian...
Management Audience. But the Journal's eight-man staff also stands diligent guard over top-level military policies, carries voluminous texts of significant military documents. Boasts Publisher Robert Ames: "We reach the top management audience of the military." The Journal's weak spot is its tendency to be a house organ for the military. This it does with out shame or doubt, meticulously listing in country-weekly style all military transfers (sometimes thousands an issue), runs a chatty society section devoted to service doings, plus a vital statistics column in which, as one staffer says, "an Army brasshat...
...Searching desperately for a power hitter to bat them into pennant contention, the Pittsburgh Pirates decided to gamble on the strong arms and weak back of the Cincinnati Redlegs' First Baseman Ted Kluszewski. Although a slipped disk kept Big Klu out of action most of last summer, and his batting average fell from his 1954 high of .326 to a low of .268, the Pirates took him in an even trade for their own healthier, steady-hitting (.313) Dee Fondy...