Word: weakens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...travels of a little boy on a wooden horse. Sallie Bingham seems to take a rather ambivalent attitude toward "The Young Girls," who "love in prudent silence on the frozen ground." Some allusions which bring to mind the Seven Dwarfs ("And start to work with soap, and heavy towels . . .") weaken the poem considerably. In his poem about Perseus, William Teunis describes the gods as "con-vanished," so it is somewhat jarring when they reappear "slamming the doors and pushing out the windows!" (His exclamation point...
...Cupic forward in the party hierarchy, and Cupic responded by remaining her devoted lover for ten years. Once, before Tito's break with Russia, Ljubinka was sent off to Stalin's old villa on the Black Sea to recover from TB. Even that lengthy separation did not weaken Cupic's ardor. But what time and distance failed to do, party discipline at last accomplished. In 1951 the Yugoslav party (always more puritanical than its Russian counterpart) ordered both Ljubinka and Cupic to clean up their love lives. Cupic, by then an up-and-coming diplomat, married another...
...alone a winner. Though his prestige will not be helped by the sudden attack of timidity and tolerance for the man who persistently defies his leadership, Attlee knows that the poor showing he would make in an election without Nye Bevan's following in the constituencies would weaken his leadership far more...
...keep the seat in Nationalist hands, for the present holders clearly cannot speak for the people of China. On the other hand, granting of this seat to the Mao Tse-tung government would have adverse consequences. Communist China has been several times branded an aggressor, and it might weaken U.N. prestige to make this condemned power the only permanent Asian representative on the Security Council, and thus in a sense the leader of Asian opinion. Senator Hubert Humphrey has recommended that the Security Council seat should be given to India, when the U.N. Charter comes up for revision in late...
...proposal would add almost $5 billion to U.S. revenue. But Harry Byrd, a better man with tax figures than Lyndon Johnson, said that it would result in a net loss of nearly $600 million. Tax Expert Byrd's conclusion: Johnson's jerry-built plan would dangerously weaken the nation's tax structure...