Word: weakens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...encyclical issued last Easter by Pope Pius XII, in which he warned that "atheistic materialism has spread its virus of division through various regions of Africa." At least one speaker, Father J. Alfred Richard of the White Fathers, linked Communism with the spread of Islam. Communists seek to weaken a powerful enemy, Christianity, said Father Richard, by fostering the spread of Islam, because they feel that modern Moslems have suffered a loss on conviction, lack bolstering authorities for their faith...
...limited the bill only to enforcing the right of all qualified citizens to vote (TIME, Aug. 5). But he had bounced back to re-form his coalition of Republicans and Democratic liberals for a surer battle. He had grown so certain that he could fend off attempts to weaken the enforcement powers of Part IV with compulsory jury trials that he declined White House aid lest it offend his group of Northern Democratic liberals. By midweek Bill Knowland could tick off a safe 39 Republicans, another ten or eleven Democrats ranged against the jury trial...
Diefenbaker told earnestly of his hopes that Canada can strengthen its economic bonds with Britain, but refused to say he wanted to weaken his country's economic ties with the U.S. "Will you reduce American investment and domination in Canada?" one reporter asked. Diefenbaker's crisp answer: "I don't understand that question at all. We welcome any investment at all, from wherever it comes...
WASHINGTON, June 3--A jury trial provision won approval by the Senate Judiciary Committee today over protests of administration backers that it would seriously weaken the civil rights bill...
...afternoon two months after Lonardi took office, the revolutionaries gently eased him out and installed Aramburu, who, as army chief of staff, had been impressively deperonizing the officer corps. President Aramburu never saw his plotting companion again. Lonardi died within four months of a cancer that had begun to weaken him even before he was deposed...