Word: weakenesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...appropriate $13 billion in Lend-Lease aid to Britain in 1941, but when Churchill asked for 50 obsolete World War I destroyers to replace those lost in the Battle of Britain, he had to sign over Western Hemisphere bases in exchange. Besides, the U.S. was embarrassingly weak, boasting an Army of barely three divisions and an Air Force with just over 300 fighters...
...early 1914 Adolf, his head spinning with unassimilated ideas, was rejected by the Austrian army as "unfit for combatant and auxiliary duties, too weak. Unable to bear arms." The Bavarian military had no such reservations. At the beginning of World War I, he was issued a uniform and sent to the front. Even there the trooper was set apart. He received no mail, shared no confidences, had no girlfriend. A fellow enlistee remembered "this white crow among us that didn't go along with us when we damned the war to hell." In France the white crow distinguished himself under...
...dawn on March 7, 1936, Hitler made the first bold use of his growing Wehrmacht. Though his generals had warned him that the French would resist and that Germany was still too weak to fight, Hitler sent three battalions across the Rhine to occupy the supposedly demilitarized Rhineland. "We have no ) territorial demands to make in Europe," he proclaimed. "Germany will never break the peace!" It was all bluff. "If the French had then marched into the Rhineland, we would have had to withdraw with our tails between our legs," Hitler later said. "A retreat on our part would have...
...From weak-kneed Terrence Ascher, seeking his father's approval, to Rafael Mendoza, who is tired of America's condescending attitude towards his people, to Marine Eric Gustafson, smuggly certain that only U.S. intervention can save the incompetent Contras, Brinkley's characters are intended to reveal the psychological factors behind a government scandal...
...fact that Bush is still calling himself the Education President while turning men like Williams loose on the public is terrifying. Williams' speech was mediocre and sycophantic. It was not a defense of democracy--it was a weak defense of Cavazos...