Word: bolstered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dream. In A Touch of the Poet, O'Neill explores the theme he used in The Iceman Cometh-a man needs to dream-but he laces the bitter, dialectic dialogue between Melody and his family with rollicking humor and blazing theatrics. Melody keeps a thoroughbred mare to bolster his pride, yet forces his daughter to work as a waitress. When he swaggers out to challenge a rich Yankee who has insulted his family, he is beaten into the dust by servants, and his dream world shatters. His daughter, who has ridiculed his false life, is horrified at the change...
...came as Eisenhower and Macmillan turned next to talks on plans to bolster Britain's atomic striking power to compensate coming reductions of military manpower dictated by economic necessity...
Grades suggest immediately that the ideas and facts taught are not in themselves interesting or at least are not interestingly taught. Grades also bolster the dubious idea that what is worth knowing about a given subject has limits, and that these limits are easily attained. The A symbolizes them, and may thus discourage further study...
...accumulated during 3½ years on the J.C.S. and 40 years in the Navy, Radford dips a powerful oar into nearly every basic policy decision confronting the nation. Currently he is urging that the U.S. speed shipments of short-and medium-range missiles (Nikes, Matadors, Snarks) to bolster the defenses of Great Britain. He is helping to work out the details of the agreement whereby the U.S. will send arms to bolster Saudi Arabia while also getting a new five-year lease on Dhahran, the crucial Saudi Arabian air base from which the U.S. Air Force's nuclear bombers...
...Come Around." Al-Anon expects members to rush out at any hour of the day or night to bolster wavering members or shepherd its new ones. Al-Anon weekly meetings are apt to be subdued, casual affairs largely devoted to testimony about a family's condition before and after A.A. and Al-Anon...