Word: strengthe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ramparts. To Bradley, both the pact and "some military assistance" were needed if Europe was to have both the means and the will to resist aggression. "The North Atlantic pact," said Bradley, "would enable free nations of the Old World and the New to funnel the great strength of our New World to the ramparts of the Old, and thus challenge an enemy where he would transgress . . . Not until we share our strength on a common defensive front can we hope [for] a real deterrent...
From the first, District 50's tactics were highhanded. They would not go into an election to find out whether the U.M.W. represented anybody at all. They counted not so much on their actual strength as the fear they could stir up. New Yorkers well remembered the 1934 cab strike, when 5,000 enraged hackies ran wild through midtown Manhattan, overturning and busting up cabs, fighting cops and stoning non-strikers...
Paradoxically, Titoism is a consequence not of Communist weakness but of Communist strength. Before the war, few national Communist parties questioned Russia's leadership. But when the Reds actually conquered power, or came close to it, in half a dozen European countries, personal ambition and the patriotism of a Yugoslav or a Bulgar or a Frenchman, even though Communist, was apt to be stronger than loyalty to Moscow...
Coach Bruce Munro's varsity lacrosse players gave an indication of their individual and team strength in the four games they played during Spring recess. They showed varying strength in three losses to perennially strong Pennsylvania. Navy, and Maryland, but good teamwork keynoted the win over Stevens Institute...
Exhausted by the brilliant play of the Royal Navy team the previous day and by manifold strength-sapping social obligations, the Rugby Club was unable to summon enough power on Palm Sunday morning to gain the needed win over an admittedly weaker Tiger squad...