Word: bolstered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would be broken (TIME, Nov. 25), the Greeks continued pressing, working with geography instead of against it. Frantically, the Italians called on their Air Force to strafe and disperse the attackers, and for a day or two there was carnage around Corizza. Then the R. A. F. arrived to bolster the gallant but rickety Greek Air Force. In a few hours, Spitfires and Hurricanes smacked down so many Italians that toward the end of the battle not a Fascist wing dared come across that...
...economic disaster and fascism at home the only alternative to whole-hog intervention? It is, if we attempt to struggle on as we have done, trying to bolster up a capitalistic system which is running down. But there is another alternative. Boldly and fearlessly we can grapple with the problem of giving Americans--all Americans--jobs and an adequate living standard. This does not mean half-baked public spending programs sabotaged by "lack of confidence." It means taking the vast productive machinery of this country out of the hands of the Girdlers and Fords, and putting it to work...
...five and a half hours. Same afternoon he was in San Jose, 24 hours earlier than if he had taken Pan Am's roundabout route from Brownsville, Tex. After delivering the papers to various Central American politicos, Yerex stayed to hobnob with Central American cronies, try to bolster TACA prestige...
...Broldrick, Dunster back, put on a one-man show most of the afternoon but was unable to break the deadlock. Ailing Jack Carpenter, hero of previous Puritan victories, came in the fourth period to try and bolster his team's offense but be also failed...
...order to bolster the eleven's punting Cleo O'Donnell has been seeing a lot of action at kicking under pressure this week. The arrangement of having Steve Mailett desert his tackle post to do the team's booting last Saturday proved none too good. Any hope of a deceptive running attack was stifled by the presence of a lineman in the Crimson backfield and vice-versa. Consequently the Dartmouth linemen smashed in at the kicker, rushing him, and the safety man always had plenty of interference to make things easier for him on his runbacks. With O'Donnell...