Word: weak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rebellion against the government in Saigon. Working carefully, he finally felt strong enough to dispatch 400 combat police to take over Hue. His cops entered the city without interference, arrested Hue's own rebellious police, and ordered the altars removed. And as the fasting Tri Quang grew so weak that he was admitted to a local military hospital, Ky happily announced that all was well. So well that he might even fly off to South Korea for a meeting of Asia's anti-Communist nations...
Psychotic Rats. Aggression, Lorenz instantly announces, is not a bad thing in itself. As one of the four fundamental instincts (hunger, sex, fight, flight), it is indispensable to most animal species. By means of aggression a species defends its members, attacks its prey, winnows its weak in mating fights and achieves safety through wide distribution-the territory of some species expands because each male maintains a domain that no other male is permitted to invade. Aggression, on the other hand, is a force more carefully controlled in most animals than it is in man. Members of two different animal species...
...affecting policy is concerned, will be the effect of their showing on their states' congressional delegations. If Romney, for example, runs strongly, he may defeat all four of Michigan's marginal Congressional seats and sweep newly-appointed Senator Robert Griffin into a full term. The expected weak showing of Governor Rockefeller of New York, on the other hand, may help produce surprise victories for three of four marginal Democrats--a result which would tend to overstate the President's support...
Culture in all its forms touched more minds than ever before. Yet the bestselling novel (Valley of the Dolls) was a story of three aggressive show-business females who rate their men as either strong and unholdable, or weak and discardable...
...speech. I think you have responsibility for conveying the essence of messages and not just those parts which lend themselves to controversy." As for the brothel remark, said Fulbright, it was intended to illustrate the "general proposition that rich and strong nations have a powerful impact on small and weak ones. Frankly, it never occurred to me that a brief summary of an article by Neil Sheehan in the New York Times would attract such widespread interest...