Word: weaknessness
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Sir: No doubt many would-be heirs of Napoleon will object to your impertinent Milestone about the shame of General Maxime Weygand. But your judgment was quite right; the old soldier typified the weakness of his time and of his country. Compared to the now-disparaged "Anglo-Saxons," Weygand and...
Who Shall Pay? There are obvious dangers in the new U.S. firmness. But the perils of pulling back or showing a lack of resolution are greater, the chief one being that Red China's expansionist government would see U.S. weakness as an invitation to crawl over South east Asia...
"The weakness of economic history, until recently, was that it was done mainly by historians and lawyers. They had definite contributions to make, but they could not even raise, let alone solve, significant economic problems. Eli Heckscher recognized the importance of the adjective in 'economic history'; he saw that while...
The report pinpoints six reasons for the weakness of teaching in the humanities:
It was a heavy team, Gongola told us. The line averaged 217 pounds, and they had good depth. He warned us about Bill Henderson, a speedy halfback with a 6.7-yard average, and about Mercein (but Mercein, Gongola had noticed, had a weakness--on a play that was to send...