Word: weaker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dictum to Roosevelt at Yalta: "Neither of us wants war, but our strength is that you fear it more." Protected-at least in their own mind-by the umbrella of U.S. fear, the Soviets might well succumb to the temptation to test American resolution with brushfire wars against the weaker, and more vulnerable outposts of the free world...
...KING COAL is getting weaker instead of healthier, says House Interior Subcommittee after 15-month study. Despite high exports, say Congressmen, industry is "sick with wide spread mine shutdowns and staggering unemployment." To help industry's "uphill struggle for survival," group will ask for tax relief, a special presidential commission to research new uses for coal and ways to cut mounting production costs...
...nothing to feed men's bellies, and the advancement of the Queen's favorites only worsened a government already too feeble to tackle the nation's economic problems. The clumsy Louis became increasingly ineffectual, too kind to be tough, too royal to be radical, and the weaker he grew the more boldly the Queen assumed his powers. When the Revolution began, many moderates took the side of the King and Queen, did all that was in their power to keep the extremists out of office. It was Marie Antoinette who betrayed these willing helpers, negotiating and parleying...
Three men students exceed the Biblical three score and ten, the oldest being 78. The oldest the weaker sex can claim is 66. One sixteen-year-old boy braved the academic rigors, but five boys and 17 girls are only a year older...
...York) are six times the prewar level. Aggrieved by the Laborite Herald's woes, one Labor M.P. even charged in the Commons' debate that the "giants have been deliberately inflating costs because they know that [they] will squeeze out their weaker brethren," while a Tory went so far as to propose beefing up ailing papers with government-paid newsprint subsidies...