Word: bolstered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beaten,' until at last they cannot write a word. And, twittering all over, old before their time, with eyes like rissoles in the sand, they are helped up the gangway of the home-bound liner by kind bosom friends (of all kinds and bosoms) who bolster them on the back, pick them up again, thrust bottles, sonnets, cigars, addresses, into their pockets, have a farewell party in their cabin, pick them up again, and, snickering and yelping, are gone: to wait at the dockside for another boat from Europe and another batch of fresh, green lecturers...
Fellowship of Reconciliation president Edward A. French '54 termed the group's action an effort "to help bolster the forces against intervention in Indo-China...
Bidault had counted on strong support on either flank from the U.S. and Britain to help bolster his shaky position at home. Last week he brooded about reports that his government would be replaced by a "surrender" Cabinet eager for a settlement from which the French would ask and get nothing but a safe-conduct out of Indo-China. "A Kerensky government is being plotted behind my back," he told an intimate darkly, "which is prepared to reverse France's alliances." He meant the alliance with the U.S., which he considers France's most valuable asset...
Signed petitions from College students would be sent to Congress "to help bolster the forces against Indochina intervention," said Edward A. French '54, president of the pacifists' group...
...much of the comedy, does well indeed when he doesn't reach too far into burlesque for his material. And since--with Mae Barnes turning the tide for By the Beautiful Sea-- this looks like a big year for fat women on Broadway, Reta Shaw is on hand to bolster numbers like "I'll Never Be Jealous Again...