Word: weakens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weak, then the nation is in worse trouble than it ever reckoned. A career Army officer inhabits the White House, with the authority of Commander in Chief, and no President has operated in closer harmony with constitutional concepts. Moreover, all the general staff systems currently contemplated would strengthen, not weaken civilian control of the military...
...resource person who sparks sharing or supplies material at a psychological time." "In a modern democratic society," say Hollis and Jeep, "the emotionally healthy learner seeks more and should seek more for the acceptance of his peers than for the acceptance of the teacher. Teacher approval tends to weaken peer approval." Students thought up most assignments, were "encouraged to do as much or as little reading as their individual needs seemed to require." The whole idea was for students to develop the "we feeling" and to strengthen "such commonalities as the learner must have in order to be an accepted...
Contacted during a recess in his federal court trial on wiretap charges in New York, Hoffa said the ouster wouldn't weaken the union...
Bilateralism--the bugaboo of modern diplomacy--is finally receiving deserved, and even thoughtful attention in the State Department. With the problems of holding the European alliance together weighting heavy on its hands, the Department is understandably fearful of any influence which might weaken Western ties...
Burke merely pointed out that "individual orders would weaken the central agency, and that any potential benefits to Manning would be denied the firm if the central agency were not at full strength. The firm presumably made its own decision," Burke added...