Word: weakens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Schlesinger patrolled the halls, buttonholing Senators to argue that such a drastic cut would weaken NATO and undercut negotiations with the Russians for mutual troop reduction in Europe. It would also save the U.S. little money because the forces would only be brought back to America, not demobilized. Similar arguments were raised by General Andrew J. Goodpaster Jr., who is the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe and just happened to be in Washington, in telephone calls to key Senators. On the final vote, in which four Senators changed their votes, the Mansfield amendment was defeated...
...dangers - especially in the area of foreign policy - Hughes reassuringly ends by arguing that the presidency, as Montesquieu felt govern ments should be, has been slowly tailored by a succession of men to suit the people, the country and the times. Any new, radical limitation of presidential power would weaken the country -and likely prove ineffective. There is probably in the long run no better, safe way than we now have to protect ourselves from totally misguided or unscrupulous Chief Executives...
...something of a shock last week when Anderson took a deep dive into rumination and surfaced aglistening with optimism. Taking a long view of his trade, Anderson raised a rhetorical question about the muckraker's role in a time of widespread corruption and scandal. Might not he further weaken the national spirit by encouraging cynicism and despair...
...this point that the movie begins to weaken. As Ivan rises to brief status as renegade folk-hero, the film loses its credibility. Ivan is more a rip off artist than a Robin Hood, an improbable hero...
...Brezhnev's promotion of Andropov, 59, some Western diplomats saw it as a signal to political ideologues that detente will not be permitted to weaken party strength or orthodoxy. Then again, Brezhnev may simply have felt that it was better, in a major shakeup, to have the top cop inside the tent instead of outside it. The elevation of Romanov, 50, was interpreted as a reward for a dutiful party boss, who becomes a "candidate" member of the Politburo with no voting rights...