Word: weak
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...door, thus giving him time to escape. His Aunt Liberty avenges her husband and brother to prevent her 16 year old son from doing so, and so dies in his place. His uncle too, is willing to share food, that most precious of commodities, with a dying girl, so weak that poppies bruise her skin...
...Europeans, who equate the strength of a currency with the prestige of a country, the weak and wavering dollar is symbolic of the Carter Administration. A declining dollar also does serious damage to the U.S. economy by pushing up the price of imports and making it more expensive for U.S. companies to operate abroad and thus directly challenge their European and Asian competitors. Unless Carter rallies and the U.S. demonstrates real signs of strength, the dollar will continue to tremble, and investors abroad will live by their old watchword: "In gold we trust...
...best bet at week's end was that Charan Singh, 76, the powerful leader of the new breakaway Janata (secular) Party, would be the next in line to form a government if Chavan did not succeed. If all else fails, the country could be forced to accept a weak and interim nonpartisan "national government...
Shiva Naipaul is most weak where his brother is strongest--the ability to empathize with all the people he writes about. He does not try to understand why a nouveau riche black Kenyan has two freezers (which she never uses), whisky at every meal, gold-painted nails, and an expropriated mansion too large for her needs. He simply finds her ludicrous and tasteless...
...Soviets viewed as interference with their internal affairs, the Americans' surprise proposal in 1977 that both sides make deep cuts in their nuclear arsenals, and the U.S. normalization of relations with China. The Kremlin had come to view Carter as anti-Soviet; worse, Brezhnev seemed to regard him as weak and confused. Conversely, Washington could not be sure of Brezhnev: how his physical condition was affecting his abilities, how long he would rule, or who might succeed...