Word: weaknessness
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But the most serious factor in the disciplinary breakdown, the report concludes, "is weakness in the chain of command, particularly at lower unit levels" where experienced officers and NCOs are not available and where those who are "may be dominated by the view that a mistake on their part spells...
O'Higgins is a B-grade writer with a weakness for overstretched metaphor: "Her dentures clattered like castanets on crusts of French bread," for example, or "popping back on her feet like a piece of bread from a toaster." He does have a fine ear for dialogue and a...
The propaganda barrage was effective: administrators sensed a weakness in the radical position and struck for the jugular. Many of the cries of pain and outrage from University circles were sincere, but they were also overstated in an attempt to isolate the radicals from the main current of student thought...
Sensing his own frailty, each man yearns for someone stronger or nobler or more certain in whom to believe. He embraces God, or he elevates mortals to the status of heroes, or he does both. The death of World War II hero Audie Murphy (see page 27) was a melancholy...
If Professor Parkinson's painstaking work has a weakness, it lies in its treatment of all those already well-known, oftretold Hornblower adventures-in quarterdeck and boudoir-that did so much to confound Great Britain's enemies in the Napoleonic Wars. It was Horatio Hornblower's peculiar...