Word: gird
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Teddy supporters are jubilant each time Carter makes a mistake or looks unpresidential. They gird their loins for battle each time Carter moves to the right and junks budget luxuries like a decent health care program or money for urban revitalization. They gnash their teeth when he says "We are about to have a big breakthrough in the SALT talks that will end the arms race and help moves us towards my ultimate goal, a nuclear-free world. Amen. We will increase defense spending by $15 billion dollars to build more weapons. Amen." They chant each morning...
...Mekong River, swollen by heavy rains, will overflow, making it difficult for fighting to continue at its current level. Washington believes that the Khmer insurgents, who have suffered heavy losses in the long assault on the capital, might recognize that it would be better to negotiate than to gird up for yet another bloody dry-season offensive in the autumn...
...Gird yer loins...
OPPOSITION to Salvador Allende and his Popular Unity government began to form even before he took office in November 1970. Rich businessmen began to send capital out of the country and wealthy landowners began to gird themselves for the expected expropriations...
Dean Pass D. Buck announced in that issue that the University would "gird its loins," and the notice columns announced...