Word: weakest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wasn't the fans, who watched one of the weakest offensive displays in recent history. It wasn't Cornell, which needed a victory to work its way into the Ivy race. It wasn't Harvard, which was lucky to escape Ithaca with a tie. It wasn't even the referees, who tried to steal the spotlight by throwing their little yellow handkerchiefs onto the turf on one out of three plays...
...nation of 119 million, Japan does indeed have a relatively meager military: 13 divisions (155,000 men), 160 ships and 360 aircraft. Because it has not fought in any wars since 1945, not a single member of its forces today has combat experience. The weakest link is the ground troops. The navy, though small and ill equipped, is well disciplined, while the air force enjoys high morale. The army has found it difficult to recruit the 20,000 men needed every year just to keep up its current strength. Coordination among the three branches is poor; commanders rarely speak...
...distorted in the movie. He is even more interested in the need of both the Old World and the New to convert the other infidel and to sleep with the rich, silly American (who, the play suggests, will go to bed with any winner). As in Plenty, Hare is weakest when trying to show how his people get from one point in their lives to a radically different one and strongest when he hectors, beguiles, exhausts, persuades through his characters. Roshan Seth, who played Nehru in Gandhi, turns Mehta-at first a stone figure on the horseback of ego-into...
...narrator, Spencer Monroe Savage--who remains unnamed until the last page of the book--seems a contrived sort of literary ventriloquist's dummy for Theroux. Through Savage, the author indulges in his witty and merciless taste for characterization, which invariably portrays his subjects in their weakest and most unattractive light. This dispassionate and always slightly disgusted--sounding tone is familiar from Theroux's previous books, including his non-fiction. The narrator of The London Embassy always seems to be presenting a bland, agreeable face to the people he is speaking to, while in his thoughts--to which we are privy...
...Crimson was able to keep up with, if not nullify, a Panther offense characterized by disguising hitters and quick low sets. But it was the Panthers' stronger serving down the stretch that did the Crimson in. "Serving was our weakest point," Crimson Coach Ihsan Gurdal said. "We could keep up with them until 9-9 or 10-10, but each time their serves made the difference...