Word: weak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only cheats but those who have knowledge of cheating and remain silent [Feb. 5]. Those strong enough to expose will be called stool pigeons. The name callers are the same people who would watch a neighbor being beaten and do nothing. The nation can't afford officers too weak to live by a strong moral code...
Again and again we went over defense--weak, strong, power and normal--and then worked against the offense's pass attack. Dave Davis and Pete Peterson, still relatively new men, needed help remembering the "east" and "west" calls on pass defense (which determine whether a tackle charges the passer on a dropback pass...
That isn't Harvard's style. We play the system; you never run to or away from an individual because he's strong or weak. Similarly, you never favor one play because a man on our team is a good blocker or a good runner. You simply call the play according to the strategic considerations: the type of defense, field position, down, quarter, and time remaining. Our offense isn't made to exploit individuals, but to use all eleven...
...course, you would never report this as it just is not newsworthy. After all, these committees are only the elected representatives of the Harvard Houses. But when, on the day before the referendum, a few sophomores said they did not like the proposed constitution because it was weak, you responded with a full column, page one, lead article. You hoped that this last-minute publicity would foil the HCUA, but it was not enough. However, an assist from the freshmen, whom both you and the HCUA had forgotten, brought victory and you could laugh. "The HCUA could not even abolish...
Republican President Abdullah Sallal, faced by recurrent Cabinet resignations and growing unrest, keeps running back and forth to Cairo for more help. Nasser gives it, but has reportedly called Sallal a "weak-minded boob." Yemen's Premier, General Hassan Amri, 48, a tough, no-nonsense operator, seems to be emerging as the new republican strongman...