Word: weakens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cken. In the north, General Crerar's First Canadian Army had taken Goch, and was throwing in an armored attack behind a five-hour artillery barrage. Between Crerar and Simpson, the British Second Army was waiting to jump off. Field Marshal von Rundstedt could hardly afford to weaken any of these sectors to strengthen the Cologne plain...
Calling to mind the time honored maxim of Professor Merriam (Mr. Jim Rafferty's ward, it seems) about cracking eggs, we must break quite a few to mix this week's omelet. The atmosphere is electric now that one doesn't know but what one's best friend may weaken and make plans for a wedding this February. All caution has been cast to the winds. The only safe way to enumerate the prospects is to gay that we know absolutely that "hermit" Dean Brooks and "leach" White are not planning anything. As for the rest, well--anything can happen...
...Alexander in turn was still pinning down 28 German divisions. In Hungary, the Germans were clinging desperately to Budapest; they had to hold it to shield Austria. It seemed too late and too risky to milk the south to reinforce the west. Least of all could the Germans weaken the line from the Baltic to the Carpathians, for there the Russians were cranking up what may be their heaviest blow...
...afraid of the peace." By now, said Candidate Roosevelt, the Murray-George bill, the statements by OWM Boss Jimmy Byrnes and the War Department should have proved the falseness of this charge. "It seems a pity that reckless words, based on unauthoritative sources, should be used to mislead and weaken morale...
Reclaiming Lost Legions. The Chinese high command tried to weaken the Jap blow by staging a diversion far to the north, around Ichang on the Yangtze River. But Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek knew that something more than a diversion was needed. Even as Hengyang was falling, he had put the finishing touches to a plan for Army reform which would doubtless meet opposition from vested military interests, a plan whose terms proclaimed that all was far from well in China's war-worn Army. Its chief points...