Word: weak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only a fortnight ago, Bolling thought he had a chance to win, was busy attracting liberal pledges by calling Albert a lip-service liberal who was weak on civil rights. To make telephone calls on his behalf to Democratic leaders, Bolling had enlisted a notable Democrat from his home district: Harry Truman of Independence. But just before New Year's, Bolling and his manager, New Jersey's Representative Frank Thompson, caucused over lunch at Washington's venerable Occidental restaurant and decided that the fight was hopeless. Needing at least 128 votes to win, Bolling's effort...
...face to face, when foreign ministers crisscross the globe like soldier ants, when lies as well as truth travel with the speed of thought, it is still the ambassadors in every world capital who must explain their governments' policies to friends and foes, restrain the hasty, encourage the weak. For no nation in history was this task ever as demanding...
...those who but show the symptoms (Agrarian reform, trade with the East, a vocabulary that includes "imperialism" ...). It is worth noting that the triumph of the congenital theory has invalidated the hypothesis that Communism is a contagious disease, spread by certain strong carriers like Che Guevara in countries with weak Constitutions. This development makes the solution of the problem surgical, rather than diplomatic. Nothing remains but for the U.S. to insist upon, not merely advocate, hemispheric support of a blocked or another invasion. By its very existence, the Alliance for Progress suggests a convenient instrument with which to pry hesitant...
...Indians' team as weak as its record thus far indicates? And if it is how did it manage to give a good Boston College team such a fight last week? In that game, the Green held the Eagles to a 3-3 tie until part way through the third period before losing...
...what remained of the UN idea, Hoffmann says in the New Republic article, "Hammarskjold tried to make...an impartial force whose mission it was to keep new conflicts outside the sphere of great power disputes, and to protcet in particular the weak against the strong" (his italics). Yet Hoffmann fears that the new nations have sought to fashion of the UN "an instrument of anti-colonialism pure and simple...