Word: weakens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...then you are merely parrying the blows that weaken your country. You are not beating them...
...front, the Russians struck last week, and they were massed to strike elsewhere along its length. But the tone of Stalin's order, Moscow dispatches and the nature of last week's battles indicated that these were precautionary blows with a double intent: to jar and weaken the Germans before they could attack in force and to preserve Russian positions for the great assault to be launched later. If the second front did not develop as soon and as mightily as Stalin led his people to expect -well, they had no second front when they thrust the Germans...
...only if its adherents are also its champions. And they will be champions only if they fully comprehend the rightness of the cause for which they are fighting. Moral relativism--one man's opinion is as good as anyone else's--is attacked as an enemy weapon which will weaken the democratic front...
...this cast, which seems equally at home on land, on the sea, and in the air. Mary Astor, as the girl who's always there when the shooting starts, is always attractive scenery. The fact that she can act with the best of a strong cast does not weaken the film. Sydney Green Street, hugely imposing, is the perfect villain of the piece. To say that he plays a large part in its success is not a redundancy...
September's moon was waning, and with it the hope of Europe. Another winter of misery and fear would weaken men's spirits and bodies. There was fear for Europe, as well as for Russia, in the voice of Wendell Willkie in Moscow, pleading for a second front (see p. 27) and saying: "Next spring may be too late." But there was also hope in Willkie's voice, and there was still hope in Hitler's Europe. From the Arctic to the Mediterranean that hope sprang anew last week as men said, by their deeds: "Because...