Word: bolstered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Missed Mousetrap. At Plei Me, a victory was badly needed to bolster sagging Viet Cong spirits, to "blood" two untested North Vietnamese regiments totaling 6,000 men, and reassure Hanoi that this is not the kind of war that effete Americans are prepared to fight. The Reds got blooded, all right, but not as they intended. When their mousetrap at Plei Me failed to snap shut, they turned to another battle-tested stratagem: suicidal airbase raids. They brought off a minor tactical gain-18 U.S. helicopters and two Navy Skyhawks destroyed, 22 other choppers and five Skyhawks damaged at Danang...
...smallest charity on the recommended list is a $3,000 school construction project for a depressed area in Appalachia. A program of correspondence courses for Negro students in South Africa is also included on the list. This charity, which is administered by the World University Service to bolster educational opportunity limited by apartheid, has an annual budget...
Federally supported scientific research at U.S. universities is another area of major impact on education. Heretofore, $2 billion a year in Government research grants-two-thirds of the total research money spent by U.S. colleges and universities-served mainly to bolster the schools that were already at the top. Half of all such grants, in fact, has been going to only 20 universities.* Now President Johnson has decided to spread the treasure around. He recently directed all federal agencies to look for new deserving schools that can use the grants as a means of developing facilities and faculties. "We want...
...Paul's address, no one had seriously doubted that he and his church were committed to world peace. But it was an open question whether the speech-no matter how sincere its message and dramatic the circumstance-would do much to further his lofty goals. Certainly it would bolster the morale of the professional diplomats who hope to see the U.N. roused from its present state of impotence. Certainly the Pope's unqualified endorsement of the organization would swing to it a degree of popular support, particularly from the Catholics who have long suspected...
Cosmic Unconcern. Famed for promoting only from within, the once inbred Star is now casting about for outside talent. It hired Music Critic John Haskins, who wrote for the Washington Evening Star, to bolster its new, well-received arts and entertainment section. "Until recently," says a staffer, "they just wouldn't have done that. They'd have simply grabbed some gal on the staff, on the theory that girls probably know about music, and moved her in there." The remark was a bit of city room hyperbole; in fairness to the Star, the last music critic...