Word: bolstered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Imperial reinforcements are pouring into Crete to bolster the resistance against the eight-day-old Nazi invasion, It was announced, and all Axis sea-horne landings were reported smash-with tremendous losses...
...necessary accompaniment of the forging of a sword from a nation's people. The necessity for it is called into question by the repeated protests by Britain's war-time civilians against soft-pedalling reports of defeats; they feel that sugar-coating disaster is no way to bolster the war effort. But at any rate, there can be little excuse for the present policy of America's army and navy bigwigs, a policy of unofficial suppression of critical or embarrassing facts about progress in national defense...
...father had gone away to camp, or worked overtime in a war factory. At least half of London's compulsory grade schools had been destroyed by bombs, or converted to other uses. Parents had put their children to work (or taught them to beg) in order to bolster family earnings. With boys' clubs broken up by evacuation, social centres taken over for war work, high-spirited youngsters turned to crime out of sheer boredom...
...this week, some 2,000,000 had spent $250,000,000 on that endeavor this season. If, when they headed home again, their winter tans were on the creamy side, they did not greatly mind. Another 500,000 or so were bound to follow, get deeper tans, and further bolster the heretical theory that Florida is a better place to go in the spring than in the winter...
...Kayser replaces Ab Fenn in the Crimson nets, in an effort to bolster a weak Harvard defense. Contrary to pre-season dope on the matter it has not been the Crimson's inability to score goals which has kept the team out of the winning column, but rather a tendency to let every team on the schedule chalk up a substantial number of goals on their side of the record...