Word: weakening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months ago, in his first recognition that Communist agitation threatened him, Nasser had jailed 100-odd Syrian Communists, and received a warning blast from Nikita Khrushchev himself that it was "wrong" and "naive" to "accuse Communists of helping to weaken and divide" the Arab nationalist movement...
...Democratic floor leader in 1953. But a couple of years ago, other duties began to keep him busy at caucus time, even as the Southerners were meeting in vital civil rights strategy sessions. This year, to their discomfiture, he opened the 86th Congress with a quick drive to weaken the filibuster-fostering Rule 22, followed up a fortnight later with his own civil rights bill...
Whether strictly constitutional or not, however, the Virginia scholarship program is deleterious not only from the viewpoint of the northern liberal but from that of the southern moderate as well. For it represents another weakening of public education as a whole, an official discouragement of the compulsory public school system. With one hand the state government supports a free school establishment, while with its other it is paying those citizens who do not wish to use it. Such provisions insult, if they do not impair, the rights of Negroes; they prolong hopes for avoiding ultimate integration in that state where...
...biggest laugh at a private dinner with top industrial and civic leaders when he brought up the subject of laxatives-one of the products that U.S. manufacturers are permitted to sell in Russia. Cracked Anastas, through his interpreter: "I see this is a capitalistic thing, perhaps designed to weaken us. You see, without laxatives, our top people are likely to be disagreeable and more formidable. But with extravagant use of laxatives, there is the possibility of great weakening effects...
...British Labor Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell, who charged that it would make the pound "more vulnerable to speculation." (At least part of Gaitskell's fear came from his awareness that a Labor election victory, with its emphasis on welfare-state spending and other inflationary actions, would probably weaken international confidence in the pound.) To the rest of Europe's politicians and money managers, the fact that their nations had at last begun to move toward full convertibility was a source of pride and new hope. Glowed "the engineer of the West German miracle," rotund Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard...