Word: weak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chief among them Cincinnati's capable John Gilligan, narrowly beaten (margin: 7,832 votes out of 131,340) by Robert Taft Jr.. son of Mr. Republican. In Iowa, where five Democrats swept out veteran Republican Congressmen in 1964, the only survivor was Representative John Culver, who had a weak challenger in Cedar Rapids Mayor Robert Johnson...
...poise and less animation, but he delivers a strong lyric. Leland Moss plays the part of the funny old lecher Senex as if he were not supposed to be old, lecherous, or funny. As Senex's wife, Gladys Smith has the right looks and voice, but she is a weak comedienne...
...Dissection. One surgery textbook argues that "the pathologic anatomy of incisional hernia is a story of surgical failure." But that is not a reflection on the surgeon, rather it is a reflection on the patient's anatomy. An unathletic man like the President is likely to have relatively weak belly muscles, and L.B.J.'s have been further weakened by his weight gain of almost 20 Ibs. in the past year. The intestines and other internal organs, exerting pressure against the muscle wall, found a weak spot at the drain site and forced an opening. A piece of intestine...
...gave birth to many different forms of government. In 18th century England and France, budding capitalists strove with a waning monarchical power to establish democracy, or a working balance between the perquisites of government and the perquisites of merchant princes. In Germany and Japan, where the peasantry was too weak or disunited to resist, the same power struggle generated fascism-a conservative revolution imposed from the top. In China and Russia, political schemers carefully marshaled peasant discontent, smoldering over centuries, and used it to overthrow the old order -creating Communism...
...ability as a vote-getter and will be at least reasonably familiar with the party organization and the press. Moreover, the experience of this campaign will have allowed him a chance to polish his campaign style. Adlai's speeches tend to be dull and confused, his public image is weak and could use more color; for humor he relies too often on his father's old stories -- the most famous is one about his father seeing a conspicuously pregnant woman carrying a large poster at a presidential rally with the words ADLAI IS THE MAN on it. In a word...