Word: heartening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...repeated intrusion of the word 'Gentlemen.'" As dean of British belles-lettres, Q was not popular with the younger poets, whom he carefully omitted from the revised Oxford Book of 1940 and attacked as dispirited pessimists ("What are they for he cried, "if they cannot hearten the crew with auspices of day light...
Through China's stern censorship came hints that something had been done to hearten the faltering defense army. Some reports indicated that troops from the northwest, where they had long been inactive, watching over the Chinese Communists, had been transferred south and thrown against the invaders. A British report went even further, suggested that Communist troops themselves had been brought down and put into battle. But these were rumors only...
Together with Dr. Raymond Leslie Buell's address [TIME, Aug. 3], small against the background of X cards and pensions-for-Con-gress . . . still hearten those of us who see that we are steadily losing the Battle of Washington...
...both Australian and U.S. aid was arriving in Java. In addition to the new U.S. planes, a few U.S. troops had landed -just enough, said the Dutch, to hearten them, but not enough to give much help in the developing Battle for Java. More help was certainly on the way; much more was needed. Java, with its Dutch army of some 100,000 brown and white soldiers, would be no pushover. The Jap had to hurry if he was to complete his conquest of the Indies, his advance toward Australia, and his choking hold on the Indian Ocean...