Word: weakens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...along the line Red generals were cocking similar pistols, waiting for the Germans to weaken and let go of their wrists. Then the pistols would...
...intellectuals again saluted the little man who, in Russian eyes, can do no wrong. Keynoted Solomon Mikhoels, director of the Jewish Art Theater: "Who are these . . . mercenary tricksters of the Hearst and McCormick tabloid press . . . who started slinging mud . . . morally to discredit Chaplin's name so as to weaken the force of his ideology? . . . Trotskyites...
...First possibility: go in and throw out the hostile Government, then lay the basis for cooperation. This the Russians tried to do in Finland in 1939, but were thwarted. Second possibility: let the country have whatever government it has or seems to want, but weaken the country strategically and economically to the point where it could not possibly harm Russia. This the Russians did to Finland in March 1940, when the taking of Viipuri, Hango and the Saimaa Canal placed Finland in a dependent position. But the 1941 world situation interrupted Russian plans and Finland became just that place...
...Allies; we ought never to have begun.... We chose the long, hard road because it was right, as well as expedient for our safety; because we could not tolerate, coming slowly nearer, the denial and destruction of decent living. We went to war for political reasons; and we cannot weaken so long as the 'evil things'-brute force, bad faith and intolerance−have still to be broken, or so long as 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness' have still to be secured for all who put trust...
...Pomerania-territories to which Poland has dim historic rights and some strategic claim. Ethnologically and morally, Poland's claim to parts of Germany is no better than her claim to the eastern provinces; the single merit of such a gerrymander is that it would strengthen Russia and Poland, weaken Germany. There is much evidence that this idea was discussed at Teheran...