Word: weak
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...with staunch supporters of Hizballah, whose fighters are battling Israeli forces. Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, Hizballah's secretary-general, gave his victory speech here in May 2000 after Hizballah succeeded in driving Israeli troops out of their occupation zone in south Lebanon. Then, Nasrallah had described Israel as being as weak as a spider's web. Yet while Hizballah's anti-tank-missile-wielding guerrillas had inflicted high casualties on the attacking Israelis, the battle had left the town in ruins...
...told by other survivors as they slowly trickle out of the underground refuges and make their way toward the Lebanese Red Cross ambulances parked on the entrance of the smashed central area, waiting to take them to a hospital in the nearby town of Tibnine. Some are too weak to walk, so reporters set aside notebooks and cameras and carry them to safety using doors or blankets as stretchers...
...which she played well in 2000 when her opponent, former Rep. Rick Lazio (R-NY), nearly attacked her during the pair’s first debate or when her approval soared to all-time highs across the nation post-Monica. As the country saw in the downfall of the weak-kneed Kerry and the staid Gore to the cowboy Bush, though, the way to the White House is paved in images of determination and strength, particularly in times of indefinite war. In a Gallup July 20 poll on Clinton’s “strengths and weaknesses...
...blessed them with five children in eight years of marriage. A big family, Rusty says, was going to be their "adventure in life." But, he explains, "the Bible says the devil prowls around looking for someone to devour. I look at Andrea, and I think that Andrea was weak"--not morally weak but chemically weak, her resistance to evil lowered by mental illness. "Think about a field of deer, and there's one limping around, and that's kind of the way I see it. Andrea was weak, and he attacked her. Jesus says, Resist the devil, and he will...
...Republicans for voting with George Bush on every issue, particularly focusing on stem-cell research last week. Two of the Democratic candidates are military veterans, Patrick Murphy and Joe Sestak, so they are doing their best to use their military credentials to counter any assumptions that their party is weak on national security...