Word: weaker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Casual Joke. In Germany, the pictures stirred immediate suspicions. For one thing, the alleged Nazis sported shaggy locks, a grooming no genuine Hitler youth would approve of. For another, a girl wore a Nazi party arm band, a decoration never permitted the weaker sex. And there was a package of French cigarettes on the table. Whoever heard of a Nazi indulging a decadent French taste? Sensing a phony, Munich reporters soon smoked...
...groups which had so effectively presented the anti-war position in the spring of 1915 were considerably weaker by the fall of the same year as the consensus of student opinion shifted toward the preparedness position. The CRIMSON, which had opposed U.S. preparations for war the previous spring, changed its policy and became one of the leading spokesman for increased American military strength. The Student Council also adopted a resolution supporting increased preparedness and voluntary military training for all students...
...that winter, isolationist feeling was substantially weaker than it had been a year before. A CRIMSON poll in February showed that 51 per cent of undergraduates opposed involvement but most thought it inevitable in any case. Aid-to Britain and anti-war rallies competed for attention...
...groups which had so effectively presented the anti-war position in the spring of 1915 were considerably weaker by the fall of the same year as the consensus of student opinion shifted toward the preparedness position. The CRIMSON, which had opposed U.S. preparations for war the previous spring, changed its policy and became one of the leading spokesman for increased American military strength. The Student Council also adopted a resolution supporting increased preparedness and voluntary military training for all students...
...Eliot crew is uncoached and slightly weaker than in recent years but it is still the favorite in the six boat final this afternoon. Kirkland looks like the only major threat to Eliot's traditional success...