Word: bolstered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...undisclosed number of sub-killing submarines back in service, ordering to active duty some ASW reserve squadrons, and retaining a dozen destroyers that were scheduled for retirement. In addition, the Navy will keep on duty one attack carrier that was slated for conversion to ASW, use it to bolster the Pacific's Seventh Fleet, which has often had to manage with no carrier at all. To man its expanding fleet, the Navy will take aboard 29,000 additional men, increasing its complement...
Diehard romantics declare that Eden's earldom has a far more intriguing explanation. Recalling that handsome, 30-year-old Nicholas Eden, Sir Anthony's son-about-town, has frequently been seen with Princess Alexandra of late, they insist that Father took the title to bolster young Eden's prospect of a royal marriage...
...more knowledgeable. It was the result "of the initiative of the division in the Interior Ministry under Hering and Globke." The pointed mention of Dr. Hans Globke, now West Germany's Cabinet Secretary and one of Chancellor Adenauer's closest advisers, was a blatant effort to bolster his argument that he was the little man being picked on, while the really big Nazis went free...
...Chiefs of Staff, and Roving Ambassador Averell Harriman to Southeast Asia to reassure Thailand's Marshal Sarit Thanarat and South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem. This week he will dispatch Lyndon Johnson to Saigon to see "what further steps could most usefully be taken" to bolster South Viet Nam against the Communist tide...
...even his astonishing erudition could save him from them, and his colleagues pounced on them with cries that expressed responses all the way from learned indignation to simple glee. He has been accused of ignorance, of dabbling in mythology at the expense of fact, of distorting fact to bolster false theories, of writing a prose poem, of trying to achieve an education in the process of writing a book. The fact is that a lot of the criticism was justified. It was also fact that with all of its errors of detail, the History was the boldest and most exciting...