Word: weakened
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Greek majority in the Provisional Assembly, and on his demand for an amnesty for all Cypriot terrorists. The real issue was control of the island's security. The British feared that a hostile government in command of the island's police and defense services might act to weaken, even make untenable, their huge military base, intended for the protection of British oil interests in the Middle East...
Principal aim of Soviet foreign policy is "to lull the vigilance of the free world and to weaken its readiness to defend itself. Above all, they want to smash first the mighty, protective shield of NATO and to drive the U.S. from Europe so that Europe will fall like a ripe fruit into the Soviet...
...society: the tradition of the chattel athlete. Author Schulberg hit hard, but he was striking at bulletproof-vested interests, and in the nine years since he made his attack, these interests (on evidence adduced in recent investigations) seem to have grown even stronger. This picture will not seriously weaken them, but it will hang a terrific mouse on the public...
...chance fully to explore the ludicrous proportions of each melodramatic character. When he falters, it is generally when the action needs spiking with a few irrelevant laughs, which he gets by contemporary cynical asides to the audience. They rather destroy the continuing tone of the play, and therefore probably weaken more than strengthen. The best humor is milked from his straight and well-cooked dialogue, which director Edward Thommen exploits to the limit...
Homework Upstairs. Today, after 25 years in Milan, Family Doctor DeTar runs a one-man show at a pace that would weaken many a younger physician. After wolfing his breakfast, he slips by nine into his elaborate ground-floor office (laboratory, three examination rooms, four secretaries) to welcome the first of the day's 35-odd office patients. After four or five house calls in his 1950 Oldsmobile sedan, DeTar often skips lunch (to his wife's despair), sees more office callers until 7:30. After a quiet, 45-minute dinner with his wife, he climbs the stairs...