Word: weaknessness
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The one great weakness of this biography is Jay Martin's failure to find the obscure hurt that made Nathanael West scream literature. In such a man hurt lies deeper than anger, and West knew it. In Miss Lonelyhearts he hinted that he wrote "for the same reason that...
One factor that encouraged Rogers, paradoxically, was the increased Soviet involvement in Egypt. Russia's growing military presence since .last March was a source of U.S. anxiety, to be sure, but the Secretary reasoned that it enhanced Nasser's self-confidence. As Rogers put it: "In all my...
On June 19, Rogers' letters went out to Foreign Ministers of Israel, Egypt, Jordan and other interested parties. Within ten days, improved Soviet SA-2 missiles were moved closer to the Suez Canal and began knocking Israeli jets out of the sky. Had the U.S. initiative, the White House...
"I know theim verie well," William Bullein wrote in the late 16th century; "they are two Pettifoggers in the Lawe." Pettifoggery has come to mean legal chicanery, and last week a Senate subcommittee consultant used the word to describe a weakness of U.S. negotiators in dealing with Communist powers. Dr...
Military advocates argue that the Kremlin would interpret any reduction in U.S. nuclear weapons as a sign of weakness. But the U.S. could counter such an impression by using part of the savings from a nuclear cutback to increase the efficiency of its conventional forces. In fact, a sensible adjustment...