Word: weakening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MacArthur has bought us another, perhaps a final chance, to destroy the Administration's proCommunist, pro-Socialist foreign policy." Ohio's Senator Robert Taft, who had understood what he heard, announced that "I have long approved of General MacArthur's program," though Taft had fought to weaken the draft, to restrict troops for Europe, to scuttle the North Atlantic pact on the ground that it might be provocative to Russia...
Learning from Their Elders. "Who is more at fault, the bribed or the bribers? The bribed have been false to their oaths and betrayers of their trust. But they are often relatively simple men [who] weaken before the temptations held out to them by the unscrupulous. Who are the bribers? They are often men who walk the earth, lordly and secure, members of good families respected figures ... Is it too much to ask of them that they behave with simple honesty- with that honesty which looks, not to the letter of the law, but to its spirit...
After this overthrow occurs, Dallin feels we should not weaken Russia too much, since he thinks that it will be needed to balance the power of an inevitably restored Germany. In the meantime, he feels that we should attack the Communist leaders, but not the Russia people, in an effort is hasten the split between the two groups...
...changed. The man who seemed at first a diligent but colorless politician has been disclosed as an anti-Communist statesman of impressive stature and strength. But as he succeeded in his fight against the Reds, and the Communist threat in Italy declined, the unity of his followers began to weaken...
...British Information Services' detailed biography of Ambassador Sir John Balfour ("He can quote classic Spanish plays at great length"). One reason for this was evident in reports from London; there, in Parliament, a government spokesman opposed Spain's entry into the North Atlantic alliance because it would weaken democratic collaboration. Franco's press pecked back by raising an old cry for the return of Gibraltar...