Word: weaker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These are only five good men and the Council of a city of Cambridge's size needs more. But the absence of any one of these men from the Council would make a weaker Cambridge and might see the return of the corruption which marred the Council before the advent...
After putting that question to "a typical cross section of voters across the country," the Gallup poll announced this week that pro-nationalization sentiment in the U.S. is weaker today than at any time since the poll began making surveys on the subject back in 1936. Percentages favoring Government ownership...
...pure, we would have lost the first World War. Had the United States not possessed the mightiest oil industry, the greatest steel industry, the largest automotive factories . . . and the most ingenious working force in the world, we would indubitably have lost the second World War. Were we significantly weaker today in technical skills, in great mills and factories and the scientific knowledge which gave us priority with the atomic bomb and hydrogen bomb, all Western
...seemed to have a chance of going the whole way; Rocky was missing a lot of earnest punches. Then Rocky changed tactics, shortened his blows, began pummeling LaStarza's body with lefts and rights. The challenger's guard sank slowly, his retreating feet got heavier, his counterpunches weaker. It ended in the eleventh, when LaStarza, slowed by a left hook, got in the way of a sharp right, and was driven sprawling through the ropes. LaStarza was vertical again, though little else, after a count of nine. The referee had to stop the fight...
...this, plus the normal need to promote the successful juniors and discard the weaker ministers after two years in power, promised some changes before the Conservatives' annual conference in October. Churchill sometimes talks of quitting, but it is not the talk of a man who has a date in mind. A likelier possibility, which many powerful elements in the party urge, is that Eden will give up the Foreign Office and concentrate on being deputy Prime Minister. This would enable Churchill to stay in office, to shuck some of the routine responsibilities, and to insure the succession...