Word: weakens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...league tie is possible, is tentatively scheduled for June 13, and if the nine wins tomorrow, Godin may go then. Godin is second among league pitchers with his two victories and stands just three strikeouts short of the all-time Harvard record. In the event that Turner does weaken, Cliff Crosby will be ready for relief service...
...prose pieces by Raoul Gersten, Fred Gwynne, and Jerome Rubenstein in this predominately poetry issue. Gersten's story is the smoothest. Gwynne attempts the difficult description of the relationship between a man and his wife as it finally disintegrates. Unfortunately he has worked in a couple of goldfish which weaken rather than strengthen the story: the characters are warped to fit the symbol, rather than the symbol developing naturally out of insight into their behavior...
Last week, the Fund said no. There is "no economic justification," it ruled, for sanctioning an increase in the price of gold. Furthermore, such an action might weaken the world's currencies by causing more private hoarding of gold and, in turn, forcing governments to put even tighter controls on imports and exchange transactions...
...letter to the New York Times, the group made five specific criticisms of our defense policy: it is not equipped to deal with "limited aggression"; it "may weaken the morale and confidence of our European allies"; it is an "indication that American military strategy accepts the principle of mass destruction of human life"; it has made harder any "agreement restricting the use of atomic weapons"; and it may make the use of atomic weapons inevitable in any future...
Baruch cited examples. Suggestions had been made that MAP arms be diverted from France to Bao Dai in Indo-China. "Are we then to weaken Western Europe for some halfhearted and possibly ineffective action in the Orient?" In Germany, "sooner or later we must expect a showdown-since Germany cannot be expected to remain divided indefinitely. Are we pacing ourselves so that we will be ready for that showdown when it comes...