Word: bolstered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wave after wave, altogether some 200 planes, roared across the famed port. A communique admitted that near panic in a public shelter helped swell casualties to 354 killed, 3000 injured. To Genoa, pockmarked with ruins, rushed little King Vittorio Emanuele III, 72, and large Queen Elena, to bolster Italian morale...
...last Saturday. But aside from Giles, Dixon and Keene, there are other men who were lights in the dark in the midweek humiliation, and thus stand an excellent chance to see action. Herb Allan and Bill Butcher, both halfbacks, and Lou Vorhaus, another forward, will be on hand to bolster the Crimson attack...
...competition open to summer Freshmen, ten men were chosen to bolster the business board of this year's combined Redbook and Register to be published early in November. Its board headed by Bill Ziegler, the Freshman Bible for 1942 will emphasize the features ordinarily appearing in the spring Register...
Behind all this was a classic example of how honest, realistic labor-management cooperation can bolster worker morale and boost production. Packard's "Work to Win" production drive has boosted production as much as 80% in some departments, has brought in 7,000 worker suggestions on how to increase output. Better still, the scheme has brought Packard labor-management relations to new heights of sweetness & light...
George Boston, who started out as a tailback but has been converted into an end to bolster the flank squad, comes from Dean Academy and makes his home in Swampscott. He was a marked man from the moment he hit Dillon Field House, partly because of his passing ability, and partly because of his running talents...