Word: weakens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even as the U.S. troops moved to prevent the fire from spreading, Washington was well aware that the very fire fighting itself would scatter embers in a highly explosive area. But U.S. policymakers believed that the alternative of letting the fire spread through Lebanon and Jordan would weaken the free world's whole system of alliances, would weaken also all small pro-Western governments from Morocco to the Pacific. Under the circumstances, and in the light of the West's inability to answer free Hungary's call in 1956, the President's duty to act promptly...
...cease and desist" agreement with only five of 30 firms it investigated. To give FTC some teeth, the subcommittee is considering a bill providing a maximum penalty of $5,000 fine and/or five years' imprisonment for advance-fee operators, hopes that new public awareness will weaken the racket...
...year schools: only six per cent of 1956's graduates went to junior colleges, while in 1957 13 per cent continued their education at a two-year school. The increasing competition to get into college will probably widen further the distribution of schools chosen by seniors and also weaken some of the prestige criteria held by pupils and their parents. In this sense the growing competition may be healthy...
...greatest danger to the Crimson's chances at New Haven may well be the psychological let-down after the Dartmouth game, which was regarded by many as virtually a match for the league title. Overconfidence or a don't-care attitude could seriously weaken the varsity against the Blue, which always seems to muster up its best effort for the Harvard game...
Then, in the eighth, Brigham began to weaken. Penn tallied two runs on an infield hit, a hit batsman, a walk, and a scoring single to center. Byron Johnson relieved at this point, and ultimately gained credit...