Word: bolstered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...come just one day after Ontario had set June 11 as the date of its provincial election. The Pro-Cons are admittedly strong in Ontario; by making the two elections simultaneous, foxy Prime Minister King seemed to have blitzed their hopes that a Pro-Con triumph in Ontario would bolster the party's subsequent Federal balloting. The Toronto Globe & Mail called it "low political cunning." There was no denying the cunning...
Leon Henderson probably would recommend more U.S. aid (civilian supplies. gold bullion) to bolster China's economy. Even if his counsel brought China scant immediate relief, it was another sign that hope had replaced despair...
...Bolster'd with down, amid a thousand wants, Pale Dropsy rears his bloated form, and pants; "Quench me, ye cool pellucid rills," he cries, Wets his parched tongue and rolls his hollow eyes...
When Edgar Burchell was 16, he got a job as porter at Manhattan's Eye and Ear Infirmary-7 a.m. to 7 p.m., $17 a month. To bolster his meager earnings, he began making anatomical specimens on the side; by way of continuing his education, which had stopped with primary school, he went to free lectures at Cooper Union and Washington Irving High School. Some nights after work, in the hospital's empty laboratory, he practiced experiments he had seen others do. Eventually, he became one of the laboratory assistants...
...Domingo Perón had made a secret agreement with Paraguay's militarists, looking toward a "total customs union" with Argentina. The manifesto was a hint that the Paraguayan people might have something to say about that. The move would reduce Paraguay to an Argentine dependency, tend to bolster her unpopular military government...