Word: weaknesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the pronounced drop in the University's reserve balances, it becomes painfully evident that these weak departments must either raise more endowment for themselves or else cut their budgets. Should the first alternative fail, Harvard might someday have to decide that such things as "athletics for all," and the third biggest library in the country are shows too big to maintain...
These arguments come down to this: there is a breach in the Iron Curtain; it would be weak, criminal, to pass up such an opportunity of strengthening ourselves at Russia's expense. We must do this right away because otherwise Tito will succumb to Stalin's blockade, have to fall back into line. We are taking risks--that war may somehow come out of this, or that we may lose face or money--but all policies, especially strong ones, involve some dangers. At any rate the status quo is unsatisfactory and if we do run a little risk in trying...
...Communists, numerically weak and partially outlawed, are now promoting underground terror and sabotage, agitating even in the jails where Nehru and his Congress comrades once languished. On the far right loom the Hindu chauvinists, the Hindu Mahasabha. Beside them, noisier, more militant and dangerous, are the R.S.S. (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh-literally, Organization for Service of the Nation). They spawned Gandhi's assassin; they could still undo the communal peace so painfully...
Harvard coach Bruce Munro, who followed the game in his customary up-the-field, down-the-field fashion, still claimed weak spots after the game, despite his players' obvious superiority...
Murray had hoped to be able to throw out the Communists at the coming national convention. Armed with a strong steel stand, he might have managed it with comparatively little trouble; but now he is on very weak ground, open to damaging accusations that he has given up on the fourth round and is going along with big business. Now, Murray was undoubtedly right from a long-range point of view when he dropped the wage demands and stuck merely to pensions; but his locals won't see it the same way as the public. To them, it could...