Word: weakening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bombing the North will likely strengthen Ho's resolve to persist for at least several more years. His experiences at Geneva in 1954 and with the French at the end of World War II make him understandably leery of talks with the West. And Johnson's apparent attempt to weaken the North Vietnamese bargaining hand will only reinforce his reluctance to deal with the United States...
...defense, he cuts down the shooting percentage of the other team. They're afraid to shoot, and they're looking for him when they do shoot-so they don't shoot as well. When he is on offense, the other team has to weaken its defense in other areas to prevent him from getting the real easy shots...
...Cleaning. The unwholesome mess that U.S. citizens and corporations spew into that great sewer in the sky costs them dearly-$11 billion a year in property damage alone, according to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Air pollutants abrade, corrode, tarnish, soil, erode, crack, weaken and discolor materials of all varieties. Steel corrodes from two to four times as fast in urban and indus trial regions as in rural areas, where much less sulphur-bearing coal and oil are burned. The erosion of some stone statuary and buildings is also greatly speeded by high concentrations of sulphur oxides...
...more worrisome, doctors have found, is that emotional imbalance can lead to spontaneous bleeding without any apparent physical cause. The doctors are not sure just how the psychosomatic triggering operates, but Dr. Agle points out that even in normally healthy people, anger, anxiety and resentment can badly weaken capillary walls. The treatment for such emotional problems is no more clear-cut than it is in ordinary psychiatry. But the two doctors have now started weekly group meetings for parents of 30 Cleveland hemophiliacs under 21. The lesson they try to teach: your son certainly needs extra care...
...there is good reason for apprehension. Historians have usually attributed the stability of this country's political order to the ambiguity of class distinctions and the prevelance of common (middle-class) out-look. Though the split in experience could never destroy this stability, it could certainly weaken it. The war has thus brought out the worst in the draft and the draft has highlighted some of the most dangerous weaknesses in American society