Word: bolstered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...emergency meeting in Cairo, the Arab League's Defense Council once again demanded that Hussein bolster his border defenses with troops from neighboring Arab countries; and once again, the little King refused, realizing that such troops would be a potential fifth column that could bring down his throne. That was small consolation to the angry, anxious Palestinian refugees who live close to the frontier with Israel. They demand protection from Israeli attack, and they do not care who supplies it. If the King will not, many of them are in a mood to turn to another ruler who will...
...examination of what the U.S. has done during the past 25 years to bolster its defenses against a repetition of Dec. 7, 1941, along with a review of what has happened to Japan since that fateful...
There is also the possibility that Paul Ward, a second team All-Ivy selection last year, who missed most of the season with an injury, will bolster the Eli defense...
Ultimately, the conspiracy theorists claimed that the doctors' entire autopsy report had been tailor-made to bolster the commission's single-bullet theory. The doubters argued that 1) the wound was probably lower on Kennedy's back, and 2) the first bullet had actually lodged in his body. They insisted that only the X rays and photographs could offer incontrovertible proof of how Kennedy was really wounded. In fact, an X ray does not indicate a bullet's path through soft flesh...
...September rose by $37 million, the largest monthly increase since March 1963. For the year so far, total U.S. gold reserves are down $450 million-they now stand at $13.4 billion-but the loss is much less than last year's $1.67 billion. Thus, the attempts to bolster the nation's gold and payments position, by raising interest rates and reducing capital exports for loans and investments, are showing at least temporary success...