Word: weak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Expand and strengthen the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. Still woefully weak, it needs more and better staff, more money, more creative leadership, and more support from the public and Congress. It has an economics section where, with sufficient public pressure, much of the needed research could be carried out or contracted...
Kirk, who compared his own attitude toward politics to that of Harvard's Henry A. Kissinger and William Y. Elliott, said that a weak foreign policy was likely to lead to war. "The United States is somewhat stronger than the Soviet Union," he said, "but we act as if we were a good deal weaker...
Boyish Bob Cummings, most hapless of the lot, disappeared after a week of tiresome apologies for himself. These tentative flings sputter along, propelled by weak jokes and-when needed-repeats of a Linkletter show-and the best of Art is none too good...
...tallow-yellow and without breasts; Beatie, marked with the red griddle of her corseting and verging on shapelessness; Marvin, sallow and unmuscled beneath the lank black hair that covered even his upper arms." Sallow Marvin is Fiedler at his best; his other defects include a withered leg and a weak heart. Eventually both ailing parts give way, and Marvin pitches on his face amid the croquet balls as everyone laughs and laughs. The reader is left with a fascinating conjecture: What tendencies might the author of Huckleberry Finn have discovered in the writing of Leslie Fiedler...
Indian quarter milers Tom Holsel and Dud Hallagan should pick up points against a weak varsity 440 group, and the Green's John Knight is a talented hurdler...