Word: bolstered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard's line actually seemed to outplay the visitors, but this was due in large part to the tremendous play of Swede Anderson and Ed Donovan, who form the best pair of backers-up to bolster a Crimson defense in several years...
...Ickes Case. To bolster his warning of a shortage to come, Administrator Ickes let leak some scary statistics: 1) bituminous coal production for the Labor Day week ending Sept. 11 was nearly 500,000 tons under the 12,010,000 of the week before; 2) coal requirements for war plants, etc. are up, but stockpiles are down and have little chance of being built up; 3) the U.S. has started shipping coal to Sicily and may soon ship to that area some 300,000 tons a month...
Order from Berchtesgaden. The Germans were in Sofia to bolster the Festung's uncertain Balkan battlement. Once the Allied invasion armies overran the Italian heel, they would stand 50 miles from the Balkans' Adriatic flank. Chafing Allied forces waited to spring from eastern Mediterranean shores into the Aegean. Inside the Balkan Peninsula 50,000,000 people, hopeful or frightened, stirred...
...Angeles last week faced the biggest problem of U.S. outdoor-summer-symphony boosters: how to use Frank Sinatra, the King of Swoon, to bolster a sagging summer-symphony budget, while holding one's nose and dignity...
...fighting in Sicily, the Germans faced another Cap Bon, though with some hope of evacuating a remnant. In Sicily, the Axis had lost 125,000 men captured, uncounted thousands dead and wounded, uncounted hundreds of planes, tanks, trucks and guns. They had won a month's time to bolster Festung Europa; but they had surely hoped for more. The Allies had practiced amphibious invasion on a grand scale, had sealed their control of the Mediterranean. Now they stood a step from the European main...