Word: bolstered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After three days the Nationalist line blocking the Reds from Woosung still held firm. Said a Chinese Central News Agency dispatch: ". . . in a sea of blood and death the troops are fighting on & on." To bolster morale, Shanghai's new mayor, Chen Liang, rode out to the front in a truck loaded with gifts for the troops-20 live pigs, 20 cases of cigarettes, 3,000 sandwiches and 600 towels. At Lunghua airport, U.S. airlines announced the departure of their last planes from Shanghai. The planes took off with passengers jammed three to a seat...
Maggie Porter says she didn't know paint from parsley, but she was hardly the helpless type. She had spent 13 years as food editor of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, once clerked for three months in a grocery to bolster her research as coauthor of a housewives' handbook called To Market, To Market. As a banker's daughter and a graduate of socialite Mary Institute, she knew plenty of influential St. Louisans...
...United States intends to see that any arms supplied to the Atlantic Pact countries, are used strictly to bolster this areas defenses, government officials said yesterday. This means that the Dutch and the French could not use American guns, ammunition and equipment in Indonesia and Fronck-Indonesia. The American government would reserve the right to halt all arms shipments to any country violating these conditions...
...important Council reports of the thirties. Through such carefully prepared reports on education and life at Harvard the Council has made great contributions to the College. The reputation it acquired for these reports has not been wholly wrecked by its increasing political activity, and the present report will probably bolster up many people's flagging faith in the Council...
...Veterans Bolster Boat...