Word: weakening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blue shirt of the thrifty American worker is perhaps the surest bulwark against the red shirt of Communism. A more liberal outlook on the part of the government toward social problems, backed by salutary neglect of Communist bugaboo, would tend to weaken the hold of revolutionary agitators America's industrial centers...
...songs and for his characteristic attitudes. It tells about a waiter in a little Paris cafe who makes love to all the women customers and becomes the centre of much Gallic plotting when he inherits a million francs. One song, "It's a Great Life If You Don't Weaken" has a chance of being a hit. For the rest, Playboy of Paris is notable chiefly for the expert clowning of Stuart Erwin and some clever detail, such as Waiter Chevalier's constant desire to wear his dress-up, braided waiter's coat instead of his everyday one?an impulse...
Baron Passfield himself seemed to weaken under a barrage of criticism from Conservative Leader Stanley Baldwin, Liberal Leader David Lloyd George, Winston Churchill, Baron Edmond de Rothschild, Professor Albert Einstein and the Marquess of Reading, Rufus Daniel Isaacs. At a meeting of Labor M.P.'s the author of the Passfield Declaration admitted that "its wording may have been unfortunate and perhaps open to an anti- Jewish interpretation which was not intended...
...General Assembly, with Prohibition in its thoughts, viewed "with indignation and alarm the efforts of those who are seeking by sinister and subtle means to overthrow the Constitution, whether by intrigue, evasion or nullification." The Church "will stand squarely against any proposal that would in any way invalidate or weaken the outlawry of the [liquor] traffic." To approve this the 1,000 commissioners?half ministers, half elders?at Cincinnati stood up and yea-ed most heartily...
...with four men, on foot; he reached the Pole on Jan. 18. It was a long trip back (1,766 miles), weather conditions were much worse than anticipated, rations insufficient. First Seaman Evans, strongest man of the party, dropped in his tracks, died. Then Lieutenant Oates began to weaken. One night, after they had made camp, Oates went out of the tent, declared he might be gone some time, never came back. But his sacrifice was vain; 177 miles from safety, Scott and two last survivors pitched their last camp, wrote farewell letters, climbed into their frozen sleeping bags...