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Word: emboldening (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1952-1952
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...implies a defense effort adjusted to an arbitrary budget, and by accepting it Ike had reversed Teddy Roosevelt's advice to speak softly and carry a big stick. "The new advice is to talk tough and carry a twig" -a policy which "would demoralize the free world, embolden the Soviet Union to new military adventures and, in the end, pull down the world into the rubble and chaos of a third world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Foreign Policy: Adlai | 10/6/1952 | See Source »

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