Word: weakens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bill would now go back to the House, which would hardly weaken the bill. It was a bleak day for labor...
...hand at Latin American affairs put his finger on it. Wrote onetime Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles in his New York Herald Tribune column: "For over two years I have warned that the policy of the Department of State would arouse popular support for the military leaders and weaken [Argentina's] liberal and democratic forces. [This policy] helped to bring about [Peron's] triumph...
Distinction. Winston Churchill pointed once again to the Soviet Government as the greatest menace to the world's peace. He said with deliberate emphasis: "I will not allow that anything said by others should weaken my regard and admiration for the Russian people."* But whether Russia takes "an honored place in the van of world organization . . . depends only on the decisions taken by the handful of able men who under their renowned chief hold all the 180,000,000 Russians and many more outside Russia in their grip...
After six months of Russian occupation, Manchuria's industry is destroyed; it was apparently the Soviet Union's dual desire to rebuild Russia's own factories with Manchurian equipment, and to weaken China on her Asiatic flank. Mukden has been reduced from a great industrial city into a tragic, crowded way station on the Russian-controlled railroad to Dairen. A strong China is not Russia...
...thoroughly tired from overwork. I first had a chill in the evening which lasted practically all night. The following morning the muscles of the right knee appeared weak and by afternoon I was unable to support my weight on my right leg. That evening the left knee began to weaken also and by the following morning I was unable to stand up. This was accompanied by a continuing temperature of about 102 and I felt thoroughly achy all over. By the end of the third day practically all muscles from the chest down were involved. Above the chest the only...