Word: weaknesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...temporary" steel rafters which were installed before the war to buttress a weak roof...
Everybody knew beforehand that the Communists were powerful. So. long as they did not call for a general strike, Italians assumed that the Reds could bring one off. Now they had made the gesture, and the "weak" De Gasperi government had been able to overcome it. Collapse of the strike, however, did not mean that Communist power in Italy was broken or even badly bent. Conservative Rome was not the Red stronghold. Yet the Rome fiasco cost the Communists face, and partially freed De Gasperi from the constant threat of veto action by Communist-led unions against government policies...
...urged the U.S. to sign a negotiated peace with Hitler, so that Germany and Russia could kill each other off. In China, she now wants the U.S. to commit itself to intervention if necessary, "to challenge Russia in the interests of peace and freedom while she is still too weak to dare risk war with us." Like Governor Dewey, she finds it hard to understand a State Department that says so-far-and-no-further to Communism in Europe, while by neutrality in China it is helping Communism to destroy our Pacific ally. Chiang Kai-shek's government...
After this dragonfly mating, the hose is flushed out with nitrogen and hauled back to the tanker. The contact lines part at a special "weak link" and are hauled...
...murmur ran through the court which was horrified. ... In effect, the young man was saying, 'I insist on being hanged by the neck in three weeks' time,' and the strength of his desire to die was forcing his weak voice through his shuddering lips and ignoring his pain, which was great, for he was blasted by what he did. He was like an insect that falls on a hot stove and is withered, and what he did felt like an act of cruelty to the whole court. It rejected the life that...