Word: strengthe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...generals wanted the Defense Secretary to define the role of the Marine Corps, hoped it would be to Army prescription, i.e., virtually to limit the Marines to small-unit Commando work and overseas police duties. If this were done, the Marines would require units of no more than brigade strength (8,000), would probably also have to take a big cut in overall strength. The Army could go ahead on the assumption that only the Army would run off the big land operations if war should come, could thus have all the planning under one roof...
Economic cooperation would be a big, perhaps the hardest, step toward Western Union. Now Europe looked to the U.S., which had been waiting for such a sign, to give them military strength and economic backing. Without these, Western Europe's best efforts would result in a grand but futile gesture...
Cornered Children. The second book, Silent Children, is a novel by China's Mai Mai Sze (pronounced roughly may may she), daughter of a former Chinese Ambassador to Washington. It cannot claim to rank with Innocents. But its strength lies in its dramatic presentation of an appalling contemporary problem-the "dispossessed children" of World War II. While Author Barker's juveniles lose their innocence in relatively peaceful country areas of wartime England, Author Sze's homeless ragamuffins live in a camp on the mud flats of an Eastern river, and make sorties into a nearby city...
...North Croydon by-election with trepidation. In 1945, their man had just squeaked in by 607 votes against strong Labor and Liberal opposition. And Liberals were again entering a candidate, glamorous war hero Air Vice Marshal Donald Bennett, whose "damn the government" platform would tend to sap Tory strength...
John D. Wild, professor of Government, who spoke after the demonstrators had left, called for "strength of purpose" rather than conscription to avoid...