Word: weakness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lawyer's incisive mind, Jessup was picked as the ideal man to thread a way through the evasions and admissions of the State Department's shaky 1,054-page white paper on China, turned out a report that put the best face on the U.S.'s weak and vacillating policy in Asia. Then he turned to an even tougher task. As head of a three-man committee, he set to auditing the entire U.S. Far Eastern policy...
...show was La Corrida, though the picture's composition was halfheartedly cubistic and for all its elegant Etruscan overtones the drawing was weak. The color, which Marchand pretends not to care about, was magnificent; as a colorist he had cleared the wall...
...Communist methods of subversive propaganda and intrigue, with the infiltration of armed bands, might have great success against weak or vacillating opposition in a region already full of disorder and unrest. This is the ideal mode of expansion for a nation which lacks real military strength, but can bring to bear politically the mass weight of a population of four hundred millions, the prestige of a traditional ascendancy and the glamour of a revolutionary gospel...
Menzies promised to stop bureaucratic highhandedness, also promised to outlaw the weak Australian Communist Party. The Dominion social welfare program (old-age pensions since 1909, maternity benefits since 1912) was not a campaign issue. Menzies will retain it in full...
Outstanding performances by Crimson runners in all distances were the most encouraging indication of a most encouraging afternoon, Jaakko said after the meet. The addition of a host of sophomores to this year's running squad has converted the running department from a very weak unit to what appears to be a powerhouse...