Word: weak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moderate hands of men like Humphreyite Mike Gravel, the party senatorial candidate. New Democratic Coalition organizers haven't made contact with state liberals yet, though they will probably work through retiring Sen. Ernest Greuning '07, an early dove, who Gravel deleated in a recent primary. McCarthy forces were weak...
Technically, the community committee had a weak case. Rhody McCoy, the Ocean Hill-Brownsville administrator, finally filed charges against ten of the teachers. He cited the "excessive lateness" of one, the failure of four others to maintain class discipline, unspecified opposition to the decentralization experiment by others. A retired Negro judge appointed to hear the cases found that witnesses could not document incidents or convincingly detail the teachers' failings, recommended that the ten be retained. McCoy insists that they cannot return. Shanker and the central school board insist that they must. The U.F.T. fears that decentralization would break...
...into a catatonic frenzy. Then the tribal elder drew his knife. The cameraman closed in so tight that he got blood on his camera. And Bill Holden, who, as one Wolper man put it, had played it all along like "the essential Hemingway man," admitted that suddenly he grew "weak in the knees." Later, the chief's son, speaking with a crisp upper-school British accent, explained to Holden that he had attended the ceremony as a gesture to please his dad, though the young man himself did not go in for that sort of thing. That is part...
...latched onto a promotion job with Florida Tile Industries, which meant round after round of businessman's golf. "I looked around," he says, "saw that all I was doing was playing golf anyway, so I decided to turn pro." For a professional prospect, Murphy had two serious faults: weak irons and his fade. But Florida Tile President Jim Sikes agreed to sponsor him, and last fall Murphy entered the P.G.A.'s Approved Tournament Players' school. Only 30 of 111 aspirants won their A.T.P. cards; Murphy was among them...
...only weak part of the Democratic production may be the climax. Vice President Hubert Humphrey has long been odds-on favorite to win a first-ballot nomination, and remained so on the eve of the convention. But even there, the Democrats were contriving to provide some suspense. Thanks to Humphrey's stumbling performance in recent weeks, doubts were multiplying about him as a candidate-and as a potential President. Rumors circulated in Chicago and Washington that if deadlock developed, delegates would draft Senator Edward Kennedy, who emerged from 21 months of seclusion to deliver an impressive speech in which...