Word: weak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Comptroller General, whose office is controlled by Congress. Until recently, the judges were able to resist such a requirement by noting that neither the executive nor the congressional branch of government required such disclosure from its members. But Congress last year enacted its own code of ethics-however weak-and the judges could no longer complain that they were being singled out unfairly...
...quiet criticism of the military. In that, he obviously failed. A few of his own staff admitted privately afterward that some of Nixon's language was unfortunate. But he was concerned that if this criticism continues, the U.S military in a few years may become as weak as was the pre-World War II peacetime Army. While that seems unlikely, the President at least put himself and his Administration on the record. Finally, looking abroad, Nixon wanted to convince Hanoi, Peking, Moscow and the Viet Cong that the U.S. has not been so enfeebled by doubt that it will...
...quarterback, but for the pre-season games it looked almost as if Big Hole might have done better. With raw rookies trying to fill the voids left by injured veterans like John Tyson and Dan Wilson, the Crimson first unit bumbled through a 16-7 loss to a weak New Hampshire team...
...Bruce Chalmers, Master of Winthrop House, who, one member of the class of '44 said, "only mouthed a lot of words." Opinions of the Faculty were generally very low. One class member said he thought the Faculty should be abolished. Most seemed to feel that the Faculty had been weak-kneed in dealing with the University Hall takeover and should have taken a stronger stand...
...position, as expressed during the April strike, had several weak points. In the first place, the overall theme that Harvard is expanding its facilities in effect, primarily to become a more efficient tool for killing Vietnamese peasants is at best debatable, and perhaps ludicrous. Furthermore, the existence of a compact between Harvard and the Federal government to further the University's expansion appears dubious in view of the fact that, since the advent of the Johnson Administration, the Federal government has been giving proportionately less money to top-rank universities such as Harvard and M.I.T. and more to state universities...