Word: weakenings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nevertheless, there was hope that things were not so dark as Hollywood thought. Last week Britain was still trying to work out a deal to modify the effects of the tax, lest it wreck Britain's own theater business and seriously weaken Cinemagnate J. Arthur Rank's empire just when he has a chance to earn some badly needed dollars (TIME, Dec. 21). And no matter how Hollywood feared the bark of pressure groups, the bite had not yet proved painful. Among the two big moneymakers of 1947, according to Variety, were David O. Selznick's Duel...
Regardless of its size, there is a good deal of justification for the feeling of many liberal Democrats that the Wallace third party movement will weaken their bargaining position. The leadership of the Democratic party may well believe that it is now to their advantage to deprecate any and all parts of the Wallace program...
...Secrecy, applied in a stupid and hysterical and demagogic way, can actually impair and weaken our security. . . . We need ideas if we are to keep our lead and increase it. . . . New ideas require not only inspiration and perspiration but information. . . . It would be nothing short of a major national catastrophe if through lack of an informed public opinion America's atomic enterprise should drift into the doldrums, should fall prey to ignorance or panic or indifference or petty politics...
McCormick, whose eye seemed to weaken as the game progressed totaled six points in the first quarter and only two in his next two periods of play for a total of ten points, second high of the game. Styles poled in four one armed field goals from deep court and set up several other baskets with his quick and deceptive passing...
...Louis last week, the purse-pinched Browns sold, for an estimated $400,000 and 13 lesser-light players, six of their first-stringers-including their homer-hitting Shortstop Vern Stephens. Nobody was jailed. It is not an offense in the U.S. to own a bad team, nor to weaken it further in any way the management chooses. But some of the other American League owners talked as if it should be. President Dan Topping of the New York Yankees demanded an official investigation of the eighth-place Browns. Said he: "We do not want to see the American League become...