Word: bolstered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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About the only silver lining in the whole affair is that if someone had to be injured, the ends can afford it best. In the persons of Pete Garland and Len Cummings Coach Harlow has enough material to bolster the post left vacant by Forte's incapacity. Few other positions on the squad have as much depth as does this department...
...packers were chiseling, cracked down on 100 of them for upgrading meat and for short-weighing butchers to get around the price ceiling. The packers indignantly denied the charges, but the Government said it had unearthed "a widespread and well-organized campaign to flout price control regulations." To bolster enforcement, OPA licensed packers & wholesalers (retailers are already licensed), brought the whole industry under control...
...over Europe. Many genuinely feared that Europe would next be illumined by the fires of Hitler's rage. But a great number of the citizens of the Democracies, nervous though they were, felt a great deal less tragic than Edward Grey had sounded. They were able to bolster themselves with a variety of illusions...
...there will be more Brazilian cooperation but probably more competition too. Thus Brazilians are sure to ask Washington for sleek U.S.-made transports to bolster Condor's fleet of 23 Junkers and Focke-Wulf transports. Meanwhile Brazil toys with a deal to give Argentina's Corporation a route to Rio if Condor gets a route to Buenos Aires...
...Manhattan to Miami in her wheel chair, plants her in the path of the playboy she is trailing. Risking a 20-year jail turn, Pinks blackmails the crook who slapped her (Barton MacLane) into a one-night loan of a nightclub (complete with Ozzie Nelson), stages a blowout to bolster Her Highness' fading delusions of grandeur. To cap the climax, Pinks appears in full dress, and Her Highness sees him for the first time as he really is. Galvanized by his love (and hers), she dances a few miraculous steps with him only to die, happy, in his arms...