Word: weakening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...string of shifts set off by the 7th's move would seriously weaken the U.S. position, not only in Korea but in all East Asia. In Japan the 7th would relieve the crack nth Airborne Division. The 11th would move back to the U.S. Barely three weeks after Douglas MacArthur's urgent plea for reinforcements (TIME, Dec. 20), the War Department was taking away from him 12,000 of his best troops...
Eugene Griflin, Tribune reporter, launched the "crusade" against Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Dartmouth one year ago today with the alarming news that Ivy League colleges are "infested with pedagogic termites of communism, socialism, world federalism and other foreign born schemes which would weaken the American Republic...
When Daniels took over ARA a little over a year, ago, he argued for recognition of "Tacho" Somoza's puppet President Victor Román y Reyes in Nicaragua. Daniels realistically pointed out that nonrecognition had failed to weaken Tacho's grip on his volcano-ridged nation, and had put the U.S. into the position of refusing to recognize an established fact...
Schlesinger stressed military aid as absolutely essential to save Europe politically as well as economically. Such aid, he said, must come from the United States, for appropriation of the necessary funds from the ECA budget would weaken the total effectiveness of the program...
...Hooper termed Herter's voting record on such issues as housing and rent control "conservative." We believe, on the contrary, that a vote for all amendments to weaken OPA, to lift price ceilings on existing homes for sale, against Government subsidy of low cost housing, and for the Walcott "kill rent control" bill is reaction, pure and simple...