Word: bolstered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...line of approach,' Fairbank proposes, "should seek to undermine the militancy" of the Chinese. He feels the U.S. could take advantage of several important factors, including the need of the Maoist regime to bolster national morale and the "accumulated fatigue of the revolution," by agreeing the China's admission...
Free from Competition. The merger, the immensity of which will have billowing effects on every financial empire in Italy, will enable Faina to cut costs. It will also bolster power-shorn Edison; under President Giorgio Valerio, 61, Edison has used its expropriation cash to move into electronics and heavy machinery, but most strongly into chemicals, where it has become Montecatini's principal rival. The merged company would no longer have to worry about that kind of competition, nor, because of Italy's easy antitrust laws, about facing monopoly charges...
...PHOTOGRAPHIC DEPARTMENT was flawlessly equipped to produce "gory, grisly, money-making pictures" showing the plaintiff at every stage of his ordeal-all to bolster the Colonel's final, anguished argument to the jury: "This poor, helpless man has waited much too long for his money...
...bolster the company's position in the cigarette-lighter market, Singer brought out a new butane lighter as a companion to Scripto's popular see-through Vu-Lighter. He is considering dozens of other new products, among them a novel wide-view camera...
...owner-operator of Radio Station WBOX in Bogalusa, La., Ralph Blumberg felt it was his civic duty to help explain the meaning of the new civil rights law to his community. The local Ku Klux Klan disagreed. And to bolster its argument, its members threw bricks through Blumberg's car windows, spread tacks in his driveway, fired six shots into his transmitter, forced the station's transfer from rented quarters to a trailer. So convincingly did Klansmen threaten the lives of his wife and children that Blumberg moved them to St. Louis...