Word: weaken
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...That "Communism is a Christian heresy, but Naziism was anti-Christian paganism" is "oversimplification" of itself. Communism, ideologically, is not simply an attempt to weaken Christianity, but to destroy all religions and Communism is even more pagan than Naziism ... If such muddleheaded thinking as Mr. Driberg's is typical of the British Labor Party, then thank the Lord for Sir Winston...
...sending major forces to this country. As technology narrowed the distance, lessening its protective value, U.S. strength was rising. The worst that the U.S. faced in World War II was the possibility that Europe and Asia, in the hands of its enemies, would be able slowly to weaken the U.S., or to force it to fight without allies on distant and unfavorable battlefields...
...University are compulsion and sectarianism. Compulsion negates the freedom to be indifferent, a fundamental right in religious matters, and sectarianism bars those who have an interest from access to the fullest range of religious ideas. since both indifference and access are freedoms essential to a free university, doctrines that weaken them have no place at Harvard...
...that Mr. Dulles and other American spokesmen have said is true, they want a strong British and Commonwealth alliance; yet American actions in recent years-the insistence on an impossibly large defense program for Britain as well as the disruption of British overseas trade-have tended steadily to weaken Britain economically...
...will be unfortunate if Chief Justice Warren, who has so great an opportunity and so great a responsibility to strengthen the prestige of the Supreme Court and to maintain in letter and spirit the great guarantees of the Constitution, should by his first judicial act weaken the Court's prestige and bring into question one of the greatest of the guarantees...