Word: stiffens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days.* He embarrassed the British, who have branded Gandhi as a traitor at worst, a troublesome mystic at best. For his own Congress party followers (including at least 60,000 who have been arrested since last August) the fast was an effort to bolster sagging morale and stiffen the fraying fibers of resistance to British rule...
...lack of only 5,000 men. Hitch in this logical suggestion is that there is still no way to make sure that the disemployed gold miners would stop off at Butte instead of drifting on to West Coast shipyards. Nor is there as yet any national service law to stiffen the spine of Paul McNutt's War Manpower Commission to the point of freezing labor in strategic jobs. And-Washington being Washington-there is little or no hope of getting such unpopular legislation on the books until after the elections are over...
...bill brought total U.S. military appropriations for World War II to a colossal $205 billion-$51billion more than the Government spent for all activities (including five other wars) from 1789 to 1940. Said New York's Republican Representative John Taber, who in other days was wont to stiffen with rage at the idea of even a million-dollar appropriation* : "Perhaps it will bankrupt us, but even that is unimportant compared with the necessity...
...wing surfaces of planes is that it can be used in thicker sheets than steel and aluminum. This increased thickness has two effects: 1) it lessens surface vibrations which in time will weaken the wing; 2) it simplifies the maze of ribs and spars now built into wings to stiffen them...
...effect in spite of their blusterings. Colleges will have to give a quicker, less expensive training to the great majority of men who do not want to go to graduate school, but merely want a sound general education before trying their hand at business. And they will have to stiffen the requirements for a full degree, collaborating on programs with the graduate schools, for those who intend to make their scholarly pursuits part of a life career...