Word: weakened
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...General Van Fleet issued a long statement explaining-and justifying the cost of-his summer campaign of attacks while peace talks were under way. Since May 25, in what he called "the dimout war," the enemy had lost 188,000 men, he said. The summer battles had served to weaken the enemy, to improve the U.N.'s military posture, to school and season replacements, and above all, to ward off inertia...
...saddling the country with a worse tax system than it had before the present emergency," he concluded, "there is danger that the defense program will seriously weaken the economy...
...Lenhardt homered with two on in the top of the eighth, as Kiely seemed to weaken and lose his control. A man in a straw hat happily crushed his cigar with his heel, turned around and showed us a little white card with "50--500" written...
Before going home, Davies wrote an epitaph for the Paris meeting: "The Russians tried to weaken the defense effort of the West by pressure on public opinion. They found the West indivisible . . . That much they have learned from the conference...
...Bronx," a stolid, crowding fighter with menacing strength and a stubborn pride in never having been knocked down, the Robinson strategy board settled on the dangerous game of the bull ring, with Robinson dancing out of the way of LaMotta's angry charges, prodding back to weaken his opponent...