Word: weaken
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...afraid of the peace." By now, said Candidate Roosevelt, the Murray-George bill, the statements by OWM Boss Jimmy Byrnes and the War Department should have proved the falseness of this charge. "It seems a pity that reckless words, based on unauthoritative sources, should be used to mislead and weaken morale...
...along the line Red generals were cocking similar pistols, waiting for the Germans to weaken and let go of their wrists. Then the pistols would...
Reclaiming Lost Legions. The Chinese high command tried to weaken the Jap blow by staging a diversion far to the north, around Ichang on the Yangtze River. But Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek knew that something more than a diversion was needed. Even as Hengyang was falling, he had put the finishing touches to a plan for Army reform which would doubtless meet opposition from vested military interests, a plan whose terms proclaimed that all was far from well in China's war-worn Army. Its chief points...
...intellectuals again saluted the little man who, in Russian eyes, can do no wrong. Keynoted Solomon Mikhoels, director of the Jewish Art Theater: "Who are these . . . mercenary tricksters of the Hearst and McCormick tabloid press . . . who started slinging mud . . . morally to discredit Chaplin's name so as to weaken the force of his ideology? . . . Trotskyites...
...First possibility: go in and throw out the hostile Government, then lay the basis for cooperation. This the Russians tried to do in Finland in 1939, but were thwarted. Second possibility: let the country have whatever government it has or seems to want, but weaken the country strategically and economically to the point where it could not possibly harm Russia. This the Russians did to Finland in March 1940, when the taking of Viipuri, Hango and the Saimaa Canal placed Finland in a dependent position. But the 1941 world situation interrupted Russian plans and Finland became just that place...