Word: bolstered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...means of preparing the U.S. for World War II, the stockpiling program was expanded slightly by Congress in the 19405, and greatly during the Korean war. In latter years, apart from a modest military utility, the program became a device to prop certain domestic industries, bolster commodity prices and even to work off the farm glut. Major holdings...
Friends & Traitors. In Officers and Gentlemen the old Waugh savagery makes mincemeat of the Halberdiers. Trimmer, the cowardly leader of a commando raid that was organized for publicity purposes, is puffed into a phony hero and sent on a tour of factories to bolster civilian mo rale. Guy and a group of fellow commandos are sent on an operation in Crete, where three of them desert (including the commanding officer), and one Waugh original known as Ludovic murders two of his comrades-in-arms...
...over the years, Detroit's engineers have cranked up substitutes for the old piston engine, but nothing much has come of them. In Manhattan last week, Chrysler Corp., which lately has been casting around for ways to bolster its sagging business, unveiled a new experimental automobile engine (installed in a Dodge Dart) and sent it scooting to the West Coast on a trial...
Perhaps sensing the inadequacy of his argument, however, Piel descends to another level to bolster it. Here he is--for better and for worse--on more familiar ground: civil defense is an illusion because it rests on "a delicate paradox," that while its purpose is to minimize the loss of life in the event of an attack, its effect may be to increase the probability of an attack...
...these methods to bolster ourselves, sometimes," said Alfred, but the section loses its value if this pretending to knowledge is not undercut. "The section man can joke his students out of their pretensions," he suggested. Most important, he himself must never pretend to wisdom he does not have...