Word: weaknessness
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The enfant terrible of the House floor, right-wing Republican Newt Gingrich, 40, of Georgia, scales the rhetorical heights by quoting Winston Churchill about the years before World War II: "The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous."
For nearly a century, the Globe was undistinguished even by the standards of Boston, a notoriously bad newspaper town. Thomas Winship, who took over as editor in 1965, has transformed the Globe into a feisty, eccentric, unpredictable paper that wavers, from day to day and even from page to page...
To build such a system even in the absence of a Soviet response would be a daunting task. However, as many years as we take to develop an ABM system, the Soviets will use to think up a means of circumventing it. Every proposed version of the "star wars" shield...
The Real World is successful as a criticism of the soulessness of the business world, but the book flounders on Knowlton's style. The stiff, third person narration employs an overbearing, occasionally patronizing tone, and suffers an annoying weakness for moralizing. Knowlton feels compelled to describe everything, thus cluttering the...
Mondale seemed back on course after a harrowing March, but to get there he had to steer a low road. His aides say that their candidate will continue to pummel Hart "until we beat him." They realize that the strategy could suddenly turn sour, but they also recall that, when...