Word: weakens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hitler is not defeated, the very existence of our nation and of the entire trade-union movement is imperiled. . . . Anything that interferes with production . . . whether as a result of strikes or of delays by the employers-can only help Hitler and weaken the defense of the United States." (Next day the irreverent New York Daily News commented: "The millennium arrived yesterday...
Please don't weaken in your policy of debunking our worried wooing of the Latin American republics. By showing them that some of us are laughing with them you are rendering propaganda service of the best order. And then it helps to keep sensitive people like me from going mad when we learn that pictures like Argentine Nights are ever allowed south of the border. Sabotage...
...hero, Representative Everett McKinley Dirksen a Republican from Pekin, Ill., longtime, profound Roosevelt-hating Isolationist, solemnly proclaimed on the floor the House his future support of the President's policy. He added, amid silence and Republican consternation: "To disavow or oppose that policy now could only weaken the President's position, impair prestige and imperil the nation...
...Japan still had a sharp eye cocked north, to see if Russia dared weaken her Far Eastern Red Banner Armies to support the armies defending Moscow. Reason for the Fleet's presence in Yokohama harbor was made plain by Navy Spokesman Rear Admiral Minoru Mayeda, who said: "A further crisis might arise in the Sea of Japan itself, should Vladivostok take on an anti-Japanese complexion. You may be sure that the Imperial Navy is prepared to meet any emergency...
...specialists made it clear that medicine only partly agrees with grandma: doctors still believe that colds are carried -no matter which way the wind blows-by a virus. Drafts, as well as heavy drinking, emotional upsets, constipation, weaken the body's resistance, make it easy for the cold virus to enter...