Word: weaknessness
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IN A CABINET meeting, staged for the cameras, and conducted of course in English, Amin launches into a convoluted and barely coherent explication of what he says at the outset are seven major points. After exhorting his ministers not to be hesitant and indecisive like women, not to be late...
In his eulogy, Cardinal Dearden noted that the city is in the grip of "a violence which comes from a profound and deep malaise . . . and a moral weakness that is reflected in a disrespect for human life." As he spoke, a wailing police siren drowned out some of his words...
In the South, as in much of the rest of the nation, Republicans have written off the black vote as unattainable and perhaps even unwanted. But blacks, who now constitute more than 20% of the Democratic vote, have enabled Democratic candidates to win even while losing much of the white...
The part of Tom, the alcoholic, can only be convincing when the entire play is working. He is the most poorly developed character, the one we know the least about; he circles around the action making caustic comments without permitting anyone to know him. William Leach fills the bill competently...
Farmers are furious over the bans. "They've taken away the insecticides that really do the job," says Steve Pfister, a Lexington, Neb., corn and alfalfa farmer. But entomologists and some farm experts feel that in the long run, less dependence on pesticides will be beneficial to the farmer. Many...