Word: bolstered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eagerness to get across. The wise-cracking reporters, the unconnected telephone, the slow-witted darkie, they're all there, most of them good for a laugh, the rest for a yawn. The second act in particular is pretty slow-moving, though Mr. Kaufman is doubtless concocting new tricks to bolster it up by the time he's ready to bring his proteges to the roaring Forties for an extended visit. There's still a lot of deadwood to be cleared away, but George...
Ferrero, a tall, thin, professorial man with a white, Trotskyesque goatee, is now 70, has a daughter in the U.S. But he refuses to leave Europe. He feels that somebody must remain there to bolster the courage of Europeans who think as he does...
Meanwhile, something of the bitter battle that had been fought could be read between the lines of Nazi propaganda. To bolster the morale of their people at home anxiously waiting the outcome of the great battle, the Nazis pointed out that if the Russians had gone as far into Germany as the Germans have into Russia (500-600 miles), they would long since have passed Berlin and be well on their way to the Rhine...
...early cases of syphilis with the five-day arsenic drip method (TIME, April 22, 1940). Since it seems that heavy doses of arsenic compound drain the body's supply of vitamin C, Federal Surplus Commodities Corp. has agreed to provide extra fruits and vegetables in an attempt to bolster up a number of reliefers with venereal infections...
...bossed by smart, wise Richard Winns Courts Jr., hung the "sold out" sign on 60,000 shares of Delta Air Corp. common, priced at $9.50 a share. To Courts & Co. this meant $75,000 commissions (plus $3,000 legal fees). To D.A.C. it meant $495,000 with which to bolster working capital, reduce debts, look ahead...