Word: stiffen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said one New Deal chieftain, a White House intimate: "Even the airing of this plan is going to cost a lot of American lives. It is going to stiffen resistance inside Germany. We have placed a powerful weapon in the hands of Goebbels...
...Joachim von Ribbentrop. No one doubted that he would get Gestapo support to suppress Bulgaria's underground, anti-German, patriotic front. What the Führer needed above all was more manpower, more help from Bulgaria's Army to guard against a possible Turkish thrust and to stiffen Italian garrisons in Greece...
...Eighth's Mission. But before Eaker can have his newspaper and Harris his fishing, they both want to win World War II by air power. They know now that the show is on, and that this is the showdown. They know that the Germans are straining to stiffen their air defenses-they have felt it in the losses of their planes. If they are stiffened indefinitely it can eventually make the air war in the west very expensive for the Allies-perhaps too expensive to continue...
...twin pillars of a sound colonial policy, Colonel Stanley observed weightily, are "educational advance and economic development." To strengthen the first pillar, he proposed to set up 30 annual two-year scholarships for promising colonials. To stiffen the second, he recommended fostering "secondary industries [for] processing native products [and] simple manufacturing, not requiring the import of large quantities of raw materials ... to make the colonies self-supporting." However, Britain would still draw semi-finished goods from the colonies for her specialized industries...
...areas near the zones of occupation. Thus the perimeter of the flow of trade is from national China towards occupied China. By importing gold bullion from the U.S.'s oversupply and buying in occupied areas with gold, the flow can be reversed. The consumers goods . . . necessary to stiffen the Chinese internally will flow into the free interior. When sold for China dollars they will help reduce excess purchasing power. This is possible because of Jap puppet administrators' corruption. If goods are not movable, they can be destroyed where bought...