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Word: weak (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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MIDDLETOWN, Conn.--Overcoming a snowy Mass Pike, quickly melting ice surface and a hot goalie, the Crimson icewomen edged out a weak Wesleyan squad, 2-1, here last Saturday...

Author: By Nancy F. Bauer, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Icewomen Squeak Past Wesleyan, 2-1 | 2/19/1980 | See Source »

...prosecuted, while others might require more investigation and a few might prove too weak for indictments. Other Government sources later broke the cases involving the eight members of Congress into similar categories. The evidence was termed strongest against Williams, Jenrette, Kelly, Myers and Lederer; that against Thompson and Murphy was called weaker but still strong. Murtha's case, it was said, might possibly be dropped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The FBI Stings Congress | 2/18/1980 | See Source »

...state's biggest vote getters. In that time he has faithfully and consistently backed organized labor. Aid to mass transit has been another favorite Williams cause. But for all his seniority (he chairs the important Labor and Human Resources Committee), the New Jerseyite is widely regarded as a weak Senator. He is shy and occasionally self-effacing. His colleagues-and the voters-respect his having defeated a serious drinking problem and talking publicly about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Among the Accused | 2/18/1980 | See Source »

...simple creatures, the weakest of all weak things is a virtue which has not been tested in the fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Troubling Ethics of Abscam | 2/18/1980 | See Source »

...Chinese Communism is more peace-loving than the Soviet variety (it is simply that its teeth have not yet grown), or that Marshal Tito's brand is kindly by nature. The latter was also leavened with blood, and it too consolidated its power by mass killings, but the weak-hearted West preferred not to take any notice in 1943-45. He who understands the nature of Communism will not ask whether the world's aid is reaching the starving Cambodians through the good offices of the Heng Samrin regime. Of course it does not. It is confiscated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Solzhenitsyn on Communism | 2/18/1980 | See Source »

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