Word: weak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Degrees of Enthusiasm. Was he worried about the verbal pop bottles shattering around him? Replied Ike: "I refer you to the second term of President Washington, and you look to see what the papers said about him,* and when I compare the weak, inconsequential things they say about me compared to what they say about the man who I think is the greatest human the English-speaking race has produced, then I can be quite philosophical about...
...support a civil rights bill that had been so weakened by the Senate's Democratic leadership that the South was putting up only token opposition (TIME, Aug. 12) or to fight for the tough bill that the Administration and Republican leadership had backed. Their answer: take the weak bill; it's better than none...
...with such magnetic grandeur. But Miss Starr is woefully inadequate to the demands of the part. Mrs. Callifer is a protective woman who is used to having her way and being the boss; hers is a dominant personality. In Miss Starr's hands she emerges as a soft and weak character. It's too bad that Florence Reed was not retained for the role from last week's play...
...Keep Germane." Dick Russell got down to the business of detail. A master of legal terrain, with uncanny insight into the minds of his adversaries, he knew where the weak spots lay. The Justice Department had advertised the civil rights bill as "moderate right-to-vote legislation," but had written into it complex injunctive powers that rested, so said the Southerners, on the "Force Acts" of Reconstruction. Dick Russell defined two outstanding targets: the bill's Part III, which granted authority for the U.S. Attorney General to get injunctions from Federal Courts to prevent abuses of all kinds...
Cause of strain on the United Kingdom's reserves have come from the weak payments position of Britain and of the other countries in the sterling area and from speculation against sterling, he said. Bernstein attributed the poor payments position of sterling area countries also to inflation, and called for strict financial policies there as well as in Britain. fied, he said by the large amount of sterling held by non-sterling banks due to war payments to Europe and South America. When sterling is under pressure these banks tend to liquidate their holdings, he explained...