Word: weaken
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...number of routine conflicts, presented in an unoriginal way, further weaken the screenplay. Miss Scott has to choose between losing her newsman fiance and using her legal power to block the marriage; Miss Greer must choose between her old ways and going straight...
...number of trained cadres available. It seems certain that in Korea the Chinese Communists have already lost some of their finest units, perhaps the flower of Lin Piao's Fourth Field Army. Such losses in turn cut down the number of battle-seasoned instructors for new cadres, and weaken the morale on the front. China's Red army is big, formidable, but also in many respects primitive and vulnerable...
Taft began with a ringing denunciation of the Administration's whole conduct of world affairs since Teheran and Yalta. The U.S., said he, has embarked on a fatal path-"policies which may lead to unnecessary war, policies which may wreck the internal economy . . . and vastly weaken our economic abilities . . . policies which may commit us to obligations we are utterly unable to perform...
Schneider critized Taft's proposal to weaken the U.N. by fighting under our own banner. "The U.N. needs more strength, and we must take the moral as well as military leadership in giving it to her," he said...
...withholding support and further recognition, and by explaining bluntly our reasons for doing so, we might keep what respect Truman's action has left us. We might also contribute to the downfall of the Generalissimo, which would be to our credit. At best, underwriting fascism in Spain can only weaken our position in Europe, and that the United States can not afford...