Word: weakens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that are enforceable. That is, where there is good faith on both sides, demonstrated good faith. Now after that happens, then I would expect long-range programs . . . and expenditures to come down markedly. But until the world can feel safer, I can think of nothing more foolish than to weaken our defensive structure...
...Calculated to Weaken." Arkansas' Democrat William Fulbright, onetime President of the University of Arkansas, who wears his Rhodes scholarship on his sleeve, waited patiently and purposefully for his turn with Dulles. When it came, he pushed his glasses down his nose and began to read a prepared statement. U.S. Middle Eastern policy under Dulles, he said, has "grievously wounded" Britain and France. Before Congress approves the Eisenhower resolutions, Fulbright continued, Dulles should be called upon to account for why these "responsible and friendly governments" had felt it necessary to conceal from the U.S. their plans for armed intervention...
...running his own way. "I cannot tell you how exciting it is," he wrote to his close friends, "to hold in my two hot hands a large part of the striking power of the Navy. Others may pull the strings and add to or lessen my frustrations, strengthen or weaken, sharpen or blunt the weapon before it is handed to me; but it is I who have it. It is mine to shape and polish, inspire or confound, instruct or confuse, ready or sheathe, and employ wisely or foolishly...
...degrees of success. Colgate Salsbury, in the mountainous title role, takes a rather original approach to his part. His Hamlet is not so much a melancholy Dane as strong hero caught in an overwhelming situation. This helps make fast-moving parts of the play more striking but tends to weaken the inward-turning soliloquies. Hamlet's towering intellect comes through, but the troubled depths behind it are not always apparent...
...cultural exchanges with Russia will not help the Hungarians; still less will it weaken the Russians. Indeed, one of our few effective weapons against the Russians is the same Western influence which the President has just curtailed. One of the few ways by which the Russian people can learn of the West, including the massacre in Hungary, is through Western visitors, and equally important, Russian visitors to the West. If anything, the best approach to the Soviet attitude would be to add to last year's 100 Russian visitors...