Word: weaknessness
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In November, in Gorky, I was no longer simply aware of my heart, I could feel it burning, in flames. The Academy of Sciences Hospital in Moscow took ! an electrocardiogram and said there was nothing wrong. I went back to Gorky, taking with me a new book by Nikolai Yakovlev...
Still, the secret police seem never to tire of watching -- and listening -- for a weakness. Foreign reporters assume, usually correctly, that their walls are bugged and their telephones tapped. Listening or homing devices can be hidden in their cars. Westerners are followed on picnics with their families, on walks with...
I am not sure why I am writing you this except that perhaps I need to reaffirm to myself that our dilemma is not the result of high and riotous living -- that we are and always have been a plain, hard-working farm family. We've had a few health...
As Harvard President Charles W. Eliot, Class of1853, said in an elegy to John Harvard in 1884,"He will teach that one disinterested deed of hopeand faith may crown a brief and broken life withdeathless fame. He will teach that the good whichmen do lives after them, fructified and multipliedbeyond...
Viewed from hip Los Angeles, Orange County has sometimes seemed a quaint appendage sprawling southward down the Pacific Coast, a pleasant afterthought with an odd weakness for white shoes and alarmists of the John Birch Society stripe. To the larger world, the county still summons up images of citrus groves...