Word: weakens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...immense and monstrous traffic not only sought to weaken Chinese resistance; it provided Japanese business with a big investment opportunity: in Tientsin alone, 35% of all Japanese capital was used to set up opium shops and dens. In large part it financed both the Japanese Army and Chinese puppet regimes. Every phase of the traffic was regulated and taxed. From the Chinese hub, it radiated to all corners of the "Co-Prosperity Sphere": in Burma, Malaya and Indonesia, too, the number of addicts multiplied...
Without purposing to weaken the position of the Undergraduate Committee, in which the undergraduate editors of the SERVICE NEWS are represented, it should be said that the old Student Council reports were the only guides to student opinion the Faculty had, in the absence of any more current statement, and that these much-touted reports represent more thoughtful and concerted studies than any present group of students has seen fit or found time to pursue...
...Army's plan. Flinty Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King sailed into it with all his guns blazing. A single military commander of armed forces (distinct from the civilian President) would be "potentially a man on horseback." Furthermore, said Ernie King, without batting an eye, the merger would weaken civilian control over the armed services...
...Senator asked him if it were true that one raid on U.S. cities could kill 40 million Americans. Said Oppenheimer: "I am afraid it is." He also suggested that in the long run the bomb would weaken, not strengthen, the U.S.'s military and international position. His reasoning: "The advent of atomic weapons has perhaps weakened the general military position of the United States, because we are a concentrated and highly industrialized nation. Atomic weapons ten or 20 years from now will be very cheap...
...sovereignty would thus be more clearly demonstrated. Some of the British-born appointees, they thought, had been oppressively overstuffed. Others, particularly the more Anglophile Canadians, felt that another of royal blood should succeed Athlone, who is King George VI's uncle. Such a selection would not weaken the link with the British Crown...