Word: weak
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Nationalist Obsessions. In particular, Harold Wilson's government met humiliating defeat in Scotland, long a stronghold of Labor strength. There, instead of losing to the Tories, Labor was beaten chiefly by the Scottish Nationalist Party, a party so weak a year ago that it amounted to little more than hope in the minds of its 60,000 members. Even last fall, when the Scot-Nats elected Mrs. Winifred Ewing, 38, a lawyer and mother of three, as their first member in Parliament since 1945 (TIME, Nov. 10), few considered them serious electoral contenders...
Despite his woes, Wilson's grip on the reins of government is not yet weak enough to threaten him with immediate ouster. Though Labor has lost the last seven Parliamentary by-elections in a row, it still holds a 73-vote majority in Commons-down 24 from its 97-seat edge after the March 1966 elections. Parliament's term runs until the spring of 1971. Barring an unlikely uprising inside the Labor Party, Wilson can govern until then, even though the majority of Britain's electorate has swung clearly to the Conservatives...
...Bitter Aftertaste," the title of TIME'S gloss on student unrest in Germany [April 26], describes what at least one German conservative had in his mouth after reading it. You assert that the students had "found neither violence so romantic nor West German society so weak as they had imagined." What evidence is there that they had imagined violence to be romantic-a few months after one of them had been shot in Berlin? I see diverse ingredients in our students' attitude toward violence. Of romanticism I see no trace. Also: Is society's strength measured...
...thing, the impact of human pollutants on nature can be vastly amplified by food chains, the serial process by which weak creatures are typically eaten by stronger ones in ascending order. The most closely studied example is the effect of pesticides, which have sharply improved farm crops but also caused spectacular kills of fish and wildlife. In the Canadian province of New Brunswick, for example, the application of only one-half pound of DDT per acre of forest to control the spruce budworm has twice wiped out almost an entire year's production of young salmon in the Miramichi...
...Gallery's assistant director, J. Carter Brown, considers Irwin one of the most talented artists to come along since Mark Rothko. The Metropolitan Museum's contemporary-art curator, Henry Geldzahler, bought an Irwin in 1962, despite the fact that looking at it made him "feel ill and weak all over." It now hangs in his bedroom, where he maintains that it exerts "a calming effect...