Word: weakens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reconvenes for clambake and more drink at Singing Beach. Indeed it will be a great life for those who don't weaken...
...shocked when free enterprising manufacturers chastised Mr. Macy for upholding our free institutions by bringing goods to the customers at the lowest prices. We were even more shocked when Eversharp cut off its pens, pencils, and push-pull-click-click razors from Mr. Macy. This is no time to weaken free enterprise, perhaps to destroy it altogether. What could we find in its place to hold out to the emergent peoples of the world who seek resolute, dynamic leadership? We congratulate Mr. Macy and Mr. Gimbel on their courageous struggle and we implore the men of Eversharp not to vitiate...
...face of these snowballing attacks, the school board began to weaken in its support of Superintendent Goslin. Finally, while he was in Manhattan to attend a national school meeting, it sent him a telegram asking him to resign. With that, the pro-Goslin forces sprang into action, but it was too late. The board insisted that Goslin must go. "He didn't have the right rapproach," explained one member. "That's the word, 'rapproach' to the grassroots problem...
Acheson: "The major purpose of the Soviet strategy . . . appears to be to isolate us, to weaken the moral strength of our position, to break apart our ties and our allies, and to prevent us from moving ahead together to build the strength on which our safety depends...
...thought with horror that sometimes it is easier to resist actual pain and bodily wounds than the wave of sickness that assails one's stomach at a foul smell. I dreaded the possibility that I might weaken, and through God's mercy I was able to concentrate upon God, and it pleased God to fill my cell with an infinitesimal but overbrimming small part of His great glory...