Word: bolstered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rubbing shoulders with the international smart set, the gay dog who would risk all on a turn of the card, there is the 'Monaco' with 'Sea Mist Polish Finish, interior richly lined in 600 Aqua Supreme Cheney velvet, magnificently quilted and shirred, with matching jumbo bolster and coverlet...
...next won legislative approval of many more controversial proposals: $35 million to raise school subsidies, the bulk to go for higher teachers' salaries; $12.4 million for loans to struggling new and staggering old industries that could bolster the state's economy; new tax breaks for industry; $262 million for the state's highway building program; election reforms...
Bankrupt Passion. There is no denying the strength and passion of Sevan's rages against the Establishment. In the depths of the Depression of the early -'30s, he saw millions voted to bolster tottering banks and pennies cheese-pared from the dole of the unemployed poor. "Christ drove the moneychangers out of the temple," he snarled at the Tories, "but you inscribe their title deeds on the altar cloth." The trouble was that his fellow Laborites were not really Socialists. When capitalism, in Depression-time phrase, "went bankrupt," Ramsey Macdonald's Socialist government got cold feet...
...York Times was actually spouting steam about Jack Kennedy. The President, raged the Times in an editorial last week, had allowed "personal feelings publicly to bolster and promote and strengthen one of the most encrusted, anachronistic and anti-democratic of New York City's historic political bosses...
...deeply ravined semijungle of Hawaii's Koolau Mountains, some 4,500 G.I.s recently pretended that they had been asked to help a Southeast Asian nation beat back insurgents and bolster a friendly government. The training involved as much diplomacy as fighting, required the soldiers to heed imagined local customs, such as the fact that "it is forbidden to cut the hair on Wednesday or to wash the hair on Thursday" (baldheaded soldiers were warned that by some native superstition, they would be considered ''bearers of pestilence and plague"). Then G.I.s taught the "natives...