Word: bolstered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bravo ... I want to bolster the great tide of feeling which is finally boiling up in this country against the . . . complacency that the "visionary theorists" have sneaked upon us. You have made a noble contribution to nipping...
...Expanding Market. "It has become too easy," said Benson, "to merely spend taxpayers' money to bolster markets." He called upon the dairymen to meet the challenge facing their industry, to convert their "problems" into "opportunities," to improve techniques, to cut costs and thereby lower prices, to seek new outlets. "No industry thrives on a shrinking volume of business. We need an expanding, growing market ... If the Government still owns any appreciable amount of butter when 1954 arrives, I hope all of us will frankly admit our failures...
...made. Unstable old Mossadegh stays in power by being antiforeign; for him to sign an agreement would be to surrender this source of his popularity to evil old Mullah Kashani and the Tudeh Communists. The solution, says this expert, is not to make an oil agreement in hopes of bolstering Iran's government, but first to bolster Iran's government so that it might keep whatever oil agreement it made. Nearest to a stable element in Iran's government is the Shah, this expert believes: if helped by the U.S., the Shah might be transformed from...
Weiland said a rink here will certainly "bolster the hockey future here. Perhaps we can attract more hockey-minded scholars who might otherwise go elsewhere," he added...
...Britain, the first letter new U.S. Ambassador Winthrop Aldrich found on his desk was an urgent request for 10 million sandbags to bolster Britain's fast-disappearing supply. Aldrich promptly telephoned Washington to have the bags flown over. Before the operation could get under way, however, promises of 17 million sandbags had been given Britain's embassies in Europe alone. By the following morning, R.A.F. transports were winging their way to pick up 5,500,000 bags already stacked on airfields in Italy, France, Switzerland, Denmark, Belgium, Norway, Germany and Portugal. Even The Netherlands, stripped of sandbags...