Word: weak
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Fisk provided the Sox with two insurance runs in the sixth inning, when he touched Detroit starter Dave Roberts (3-3) for a weak ground ball single up the middle, following a single by Rick Miller and a double by rightfielder Dwight Evans...
Since assuming the presidency in August 1974, Ford has frequently seemed weak, uncertain, vacillating. The nation is at peace, the economy is surging, and no one questions Ford's honesty and decency. Yet the White House appears rudderless. The Administration has come down on both sides of legislation to aid debt-ridden New York City, to permit a single picketing union to shut down an entire construction project, to strengthen antitrust laws, to reduce income taxes. When his since-departed campaign manager, Bo Callaway, greased the skids for Nelson Rockefeller's slide from the 1976 Ford ticket...
Last week, as strident campaign posters blossomed on walls and telephone poles all over Italy and politicians caucused to plot national election strategies, San Gennaro was not the nation's only leading indicator of disaster. The election was called one year ahead of schedule because a succession of weak center-left governments had been unable to solve the country's festering economic and social problems. It is an election that few politicians really want now. The early reading was that the Communists would make parliamentary gains equal to or larger than their already sizable increase in power...
...laffs coming with a tiring and finally irritating stream of take-offs of TV just the way it is today. L.A. crime dramas get the treatment with "Police Comic," a one-minute bit in which a stand-up joking cop makes the bad guy give up with one joke. Weak? You should hear the joke. The new ethnic sitcoms are covered with "Ramon and Sonja," where a typical gypsy family, a cab-driver, two whores and a "faggot" (I'd like a peanut for every time that word is used; I could run for president) live together in disharmony...
...defense was weak. Field cited Nancy Zweng, who played "unbelievably" on defense in the Dartmouth game. On the attack side, Field said Anne Johnson played "exceptionally well. She was moving through and clearing space for the rest of the attack...