Word: bolstered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After taking away most of the Harvard pitching staff, the war did a turnabout for Coach Foyd Stahl by giving him an old nemesis, Bill Judge, to bolster his mound corps, and Judge came through Tuesday to spark the Crimson to a stinging 4-1 victory over the Boston Naval Receiving Station...
...achieve this progress so that the suffering and waste of war would no longer be inevitable. In this they have failed. Civilization will go on, but how about the universities? They too shall probably continue, but such muddled thinking as that expressed by President Hutchins does not help to bolster their falling prestige...
...same squeeze play occurred in the last war, but that time Elder Statesman Bernard Mannes Baruch pulled a shrewd counter-squeeze. After he persuaded the U.S. Treasury to stop shipping silver (to bolster India's currency), burlap prices came down in a hurry. Burlap importers-and their bagless customers-wish they had another Baruch...
...British Foreign Office and the American State Department intend to bolster up their quasi-Fascist or out-and-out Fascist regimes when the Nazi-Fascist, military machine has collapsed, or do they intend to help democratic groups get the upper hand as for as possible...
Everybody Happy? Last week's settlement, like most compromises, appeared to make everyone reasonably happy. Said the Mirandas' lawyer: "A complete vindication." (The brothers need it to bolster their plea for a Presidential pardon on their prison sentence.) The opposing lawyers pointed out that any "exoneration" of the Miranda group must wait until Justice J. Sidney Bernstein gives final court approval later this month. And some Buccaneers are finally in action. In any case, whatever earnings there are on its current backlog (around $257 million) will henceforth belong to Brewster...