Word: bolstered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ministry's belated story of how invasion was stiff-armed on Sept. 16 seemed timed to bolster public courage-and details of it came to Aircraft Production Minister Lord Beaver-brook's newspapers from "neutral" sources in Spain at just the right moment. A change in the command of the Home Fleet also well suited the emergency...
...give this military aid to England and no one has made the effort to stop him." Does any sane American really want to stop him? Regardless of the fact that we obtained vital bases in return for those obsolete destroyers, can you really believe it unsound to try to bolster desperate England in the hope--even were it ten times as faint--of keeping war away from an appallingly unprepared America...
...Franklin Roosevelt, in effect, revived the War Industries Board under a new name: The National Defense Advisory Commission. The President desperately needed production to bolster his country's ailing defenses. To be his Production Chief he chose the nation's No. 1 production man: bulky, blue-eyed, hard-headed William S. Knudsen, General Motors' president, who has turned out more automobiles a year than anyone in the world...
...bolster Vito Gurino's memory, District Attorney O'Dwyer brought in one of his old pals, Angelo ("Julie") Catalano, State's witness. The two had not met since Gurino tried and failed to take his fellow mobster for a ride last spring because he feared that Catalano would talk. When Catalano saw his would-be assassin, he went white with terror, hid behind detectives. But as he listened to the whining confession, Catalano took heart, came out from behind his protectors, stared unbelievingly at the cringing fat man in the chair. At the end his smile...
Representing the sporting world are Tommy Hitchcock's son and William Bingham Jr. Both intend to compete in their father's sports and have shown signs of proficiency. Hitchcock polos in Westbury Long Island and should bolster the malletmen in their attempt to equal the Forbes field, while Bingham competed in track at Choate. He runs dashes and the half mile...