Word: weaknesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...owners of Arabian oil lands; any concentration of Russian troops in the Middle East seemed strategically unwise; and small nations refused to sacrifice their tiny armies to the cause of international police. The stakes riding on a successful partition of Palestine demand a safeguard beyond the efforts of a weak state militia. As the originator of the plan, the United Nations can do the Jewish people a great service and fulfill its purpose in the eyes of the world...
Mikkola, hopeful that the new campaign would produce a happier story than the cross country opener, predicted considerable vitality in some of the jumping and weight-throwing events, but admitted that "we may be a little weak in the distances, sprints and hurdles...
...there is no Charles de Gaulle in Italy, the Reds needed an ostensible target, and they chose what they call the "neofascist aggressors," a term in which they include the beaten and disintegrating Qualunquists (Common Man Front) and the Movimento Sociale Italiano, which is frankly fascist but small and weak. Actually the Communist target was the pro-Western, Christian Democratic Government of Premier Alcide de Gasperi. The Communist objective was to test the efficiency and self-control of the Government police...
...total of the evening is a remarkably well-balanced serving of Coward, tremendously enhanced by his expert direction. Even in the weak moments of "Fumed Oak," the element timing of action and dialogue carries the audience past the inherent failures of the work: and although the middle-class experiment fails through author's in ability to combine his overeager social consciousness with a saving fluency of dialogue, the director's fine sense of timing and contrast save the piece as a whole. Indeed, the neatly-balanced combination of Coward and Coward make the Shubert bill worth...
Stone, still weakened, is not expected to do much sustained work against Brown, but his return plugs the Crimson at one of its big weak spots of past weeks. Coulson and Howe are probably out for the season...