Word: bolstered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was only one battle left in Europe last week, the Battle of Germany-at whose borders the Allies already stood. This battle had four fronts: North, South, East and West. And now they were not only all active at once but all related. To bolster one, the Germans had to take risks on every other...
...that they had been fobbed off with nothing but promises. U.S. and British forces on the Burma fringe, U.S. airmen in China had done what they could for China (and for the Allied cause). Millions of U.S. dollars had been poured into China to provision the Fourteenth Air Force, bolster China's strained finance. But Erh Ch'i-July 7, the Double Seventh, the seventh day of the seventh month-would not be a happy day for the Chinese. It had not been a happy day since 1937, when the Japanese chose the Double Seventh to seize...
...Before cold-eyed "volunteer" French workers a group of unhappy-looking German entertainers tinkle tunes on glasses to bolster morale...
...Nazi party bosses had no intention of losing their control over the rank & file. Unabashedly they borrowed an old idea from their bitter Russian enemy: an arti. cle in Hermann Göring's Essener National-Zeitung disclosed that political commissars were being assigned to Wehrmacht divisions to bolster German soldiers' morale, political philosophy and will to resist throughout the war's "decisive phase...
...Germans suddenly showed panicky signs of uncertainty over Denmark, where a wave of sabotage had broken out. From Sweden came reports (possibly Nazi-inspired) that the Wehrmacht had rushed in heavy reinforcements, seven infantry and two armored divisions, to bolster its position along the Danish Jutland peninsula...