Word: stiffeners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dispel the gloom and to stiffen his countrymen's resolution to achieve prosperity and independence, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer gathered together six Cabinet ministers and made a flying postconference trip to Berlin. To the 2,200,000 West German citizens of this beleaguered isle in the German Red sea, he promised generous help from Bonn to fight unemployment, expand West Berlin commerce with West Germany and meet the city's big budget deficit of 900 million Deutsche Marks ($214,285,000). To the 17 million East Germans, for whom the Berlin conference was a last forlorn hope...
President Eisenhower must make the ultimate decision. To date, he clings to the hope that U.S. technical assistance will stiffen the French, and that the French can still win. The 250 U.S. officers and airmen in Indo-China will soon be reinforced by 150 more. Their job: to get the bogged-down French air force flying efficiently again. The next move may be a blockade of the Indo-Chinese coast (but not China) to prevent reinforcement by sea. This would require a naval carrier task force to move into the South China Sea. If these measures do not bring victory...
...folklore and religious customs, simplified his style and began copying the primitive pictures he saw on mud huts. At first his dancing devils and elephant gods were not successful, and for years he barely kept alive. Sometimes he used his clothes for canvas-first smeared with cow dung to stiffen them, then whitewashed to make a painting surface. He mixed his own inexpensive paints, including such ingredients as rock dust, mud and lampblack...
...succession of British and U.S. ambassadors tried to encourage the Shah to be firm. Though they could reach his heart, they could not stiffen his spine. And at each stage of Mossadegh's usurpation of power, loyal army commanders pleaded: "Say the word, O Shahinshah, say the word." The Shah increasingly resorted to barbiturates to sleep; his temples greyed, his hands trembled. One night last week, in his 34th year, his twelfth as Shah, his third in the era of Mossadegh, the Shah gave the long-awaited word. It was much too late...
College students are bound to feel the pinch as authorities generally stiffen draft regulations to milk more and more men from deferred ranks into the military, a high draft official told the CRIMSON yesterday...