Word: weak
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...problem with crying in public isn?t that it?s feminine or weak, it?s that weeping will never communicate as much as words. We tend to think of being caught crying in public as being exposed - a raw, unvarnished act. It is a way of being emotional, to be sure, yet crying can be a way of avoiding emotional complications; see Randy "Duke" Cunningham?s pre-indictment press conference, or Sen. Dick Durbin?s oddly excruciating apology for comparing Gitmo interrogators to the Nazis...
...place in the region than with freedom of expression. A growing sense of vulnerability is why many find it easy to ignore Ahmadinejad's fundamentalist outlook and provocative remarks and concentrate on his nationalist defiance. "I don't like this regime, but I don't think Iran should be weak either, or else we'll end up like Iraq," says Nazanin Arafin, 33, a teacher. "In the end, I'd rather be oppressed by an Iranian than a foreign occupier...
...Widely metastatic pulmonary adenocarcinoma means lung cancer that is practically everywhere in the body. It's even scary to write the words, since they are invariably written about people who are grey, emaciated and so weak they can't even walk. Their bones break, they slowly suffocate. It's the real reason why doctors are scared of cigarettes. And it's what they wrote about a friend of mine named Charlie...
...effort to help plan happy hour, plant flowers in your courtyard, or start a foosball league. The onus falls upon the current generation of students to sustain old traditions and start new ones.Not To Do:1. Don’t hole up in your bedroom. Sleep is for the weak, and work can wait another day. The joy of a House stems from the fact that there is a community at your fingertips that is infinitely more valuable than a response paper. It’s not that solitude and self-reflection isn’t important–alone...
...crises, No other nation has the ability we have. In a contemporary film featuring Pres. Eisenhower's warning about the might of the military-industrial complex might be added another insight from that underrated President when he warned "History doesn't long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid...