Word: weaknessness
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"He doesn't have any loyalists around here. We all ran ahead of him in the last election. Now, when he's weak in the polls, members feel free to put space between him and them." That sense of political weakness extends far beyond the polls. Said one...
The ominous inconvenience of the gasoline lines has aroused combinations of scapegoating and soul searching. While many Americans blame the oil companies, others regard American energy habits as a symptom of fundamental national weakness. There is an unhappy plausibility in the underlying premise that Americans have drifted into a condition...
All through last winter, the nation heard rumblings about American "weakness."
I disagree with Pope John Paul II's insistence on celibate priests [April 23]. The crisis in the church today is not due to the "weakness" of "individual priests," but rather to the strength of their vision: that the church should be more reconciling than condemnatory.
Well aware of the Senate criticism of the impending SALT agreement, both officials took pains to rebut charges that the U.S. is becoming a second-rate power. Said Vance: "The distorted proposition being advanced by some that America is in a period of decline in the world is not only...