Word: weaknessness
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As with many minor writers, her strength can be found in her weakness. She believed passionately in the old values of probity, discretion and charity, though she would probably have lumped them all under one of her favorite words: sanity.
Last month the General Accounting Office charged the Agriculture Department with "weakness in managing" the sale. Last week the Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee took up the grain sales in hearings marked by heated exchanges between Chairman Henry M. Jackson of Washington and Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz. Jackson called the grain...
"Certainly we advanced from a position of weakness because we're a small country," Kirk said. "But the frigate--acting as our silent, accusing witness--aroused more public interest."
Later smuggled to London and Hollywood for editing and mixing, the film took another six months to complete. Although the gun-running scenes, too dangerous to film on the spot, had to be recreated as inserts, the rest of the movie records life in the IRA in its diurnal and...
Perhaps it has something to do with that old Southern blend of agrarian ide alism and the-18th century romance with the noble savage. Or maybe it is just all that ambling through the tall grass. In any case, Southern writers have had a particular weakness for seeing beauty and...