Word: bolstered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nanking. There plans were laid for the use of occupied areas as a weight to drag down the free areas. Where as China once used the occupied areas against Japan - by scorching the earth, by guerrilla interruptions - Japan will now use the same areas to blockade Free China, to bolster Japan's economy constructively while Free China's economy withers...
Vichy explained that the changes were necessary to bolster its labor policy (rounding up workers for German factories) and to meet "military and colonial demands" by concentrating power in Laval's hands. The outside world had another explanation: the rats were beginning to scurry about on a sinking ship...
Into the New Deal. When the crash came, Morgan joined with other bankers to stem the tide. A $240,000,000 pool was formed to bolster the market-a gesture which failed. "There is no man nor group of men," said the top-ranking Morgan partner, realistic Thomas W. Lament, "who can buy all the stocks that the American public can sell." The market crashed on down. In 1933 came the New Deal, and with it the campaign against "princes of privilege" and "economic royalists...
...main Partisan force, headed by ex-Lawyer Ivan Ribar (TIME, Feb. 8), was still aloof, and the chances of real unity were therefore small. The men of Ribar have the potent support of the Soviet Government, which has taken a strong hand in Yugoslav affairs in order to bolster its influence in the Balkans and because the Partisans are battling Axis troops. Twice (once last August, again in January) Moscow has supplied the Government in Exile with specific allegations that Mihailovich was collaborating with the Axis. To date, these charges have been neither proved nor disproved...
...fruit juice and water for 21 days.* He embarrassed the British, who have branded Gandhi as a traitor at worst, a troublesome mystic at best. For his own Congress party followers (including at least 60,000 who have been arrested since last August) the fast was an effort to bolster sagging morale and stiffen the fraying fibers of resistance to British rule...