Word: hardening
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...kinder things people have said was that he was an able but harmless fellow afflicted by delusions of grandeur. Others, with more calumny, have said that he was the Axis super-agent for the Western Hemisphere, told off to: 1) soften up Latin America for the Axis; 2) harden it up against North America...
...believe there is more kindliness in England today than in all its history. The fear that the discipline of war would harden the hearts of men and dam social progress has not materialized...
Last spring Morgenthau fought Eccles' program to harden the money market (which would have raised the Treasury's interest rates). But spring was a long time ago last week. There are greater dangers to the country's economy than increased interest rates...
...vainly tried to decapitate Sabrina, the bronze nymph for whom 80 generations of Amherst classes have fought one another. ∙∙ Prophet Wilbur Glen Voliva of Zion, Ill. predicted a bad end for the dictators by plunging into a lake of fire (Revelation 21:8). ∙∙ Dr. Samuel Harden Church, 83-year-old head of the Carnegie Institute, who offered a million dollars last year for the abduction of Hitler, returned his Legion of Honor ribbon to France, explained to Marshal Henri Petain: ". . . Under your recreant Government it has lost its value." ∙∙ Eighty-four-year-old Lady...
...TIME'S account described the first week of mass daylight raids in mid-September, when Londoners' reactions showed they were not yet bomb-hardened. They did undoubtedly harden, and they naturally grew cockier when mass daylight raids stopped after the British defense had rung up high daily scores in planes shot down. Far from cocky is the frank recital below of a man whose home...