Word: weaknessness
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An often-cited weakness was his lack of firsthand knowledge of the land and people outside Saigon. He spoke neither French nor Vietnamese. He learned about Viet Nam largely through briefings, refined and delivered by optimistic senior staffers who drew their information from men in the field but filtered out...
If Solti has a weakness it is that as a colorist he prefers primary hues to the shades in between. The delicate pastels of French impressionists like Debussy and Ravel simply seem to be beyond him. Yet one can never rule out any possibility with Solti-even his becoming a...
Plante's departure leaves Bruins with a glaring weakness in the goal. Eddie Johnston, the Bruins' back-up goalie, may soon go to the Maple Leaves. Informed sources say that Johnston is the unnamed player the Bruins promised to send to Toronto as part of the Plante deal.
The more Humphrey flashes back, trying to individualize the Renshaws, the more they seem to merge as a single literary convention, the official folk hero of latter-day Southern fiction: epic hunter, epic drinker, epic lecher, with the classic weakness for a maddening black girl down among the cabins. Humphrey...
But so far the Nixon administration does not want to talk from a position of weakness and therefore it has chosen to continue the bombing of the country with the slight hope that it could weaken the revolutionary Khmer forces.