Word: bolstered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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United States troops were first sent to Vietnam in 1961 to bolster the crumbling regime of Ngo Dinh Diem and to serve as advisors in the war against the Viet Cong. Since then American commitment in South Vietnam has steadily increased...
...clay, earth, and limestone, some 700 feet in diameter and 120 feet high. Hidden within the great mound was found an earlier mound 300 feet in diameter. Circling the base of the inner mound is a six-foot-high wall of beautiful masonry crowned by a large circular bolster...
What are needed, of course, are not a strong Governor but a strong Governorship. The problem lies with the office, not with the parade of hapless men who have tried to fill it. Fortunately this year's ballot offers the state's voters two opportunities to bolster that office...
...HUSBANDS: "Let him educate you. The whole duty of a wife is to bolster her husband's selfesteem; not his vanity but his pride. A man's ego bruises easily. It is not nourished like a woman's by the sheer biological ability to bear children...
...large number of promising sophomores from last year's 7-1-1 freshman squad, including halfbacks Teny Marks and Andy Kydes and fullbacks Alex Patton and Kari Lunkenheimer, will bolster the booters defensively...