Word: strengthed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stronger U.S. policy had helped the Foreign Ministers Conference, too. The Moscow sessions were still bumping along (see below), but the old tension was gone. Everyone knew that the U.S. would not make major concessions which would tend to equalize Soviet and U.S. strength-because in such equalization lay the danger...
...mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength...
Said Chief of Staff Chen Cheng: "We expect to achieve defeat of the main Communist strength within three months." This did not mean "the end of all armed Communists-naturally there will be pockets left." But it did mean, Chen thought, that "the enemy will cease to exist as a formal armed opposition." Nanking generals were unworried about guerrillas, considered that guerrillas never gravely bothered the Japanese...
...same time, each nation will scatter its population, bury its factories underground, conceal its command centers, stockpile materials and equipment against the day when no more can be produced. The process will not protect the people, but it may allow the nation to preserve some of its strength while under atomic attack, and scrape together enough bombs to wipe out its enemy...
That old country was utterly unlike the prairie farm-a farm so big that the old man had never learned to work it. But his big son, Pier, putting all his strength into the job, got rid of the mortgage that first bumper year. And Nertha bore him a boy. Pier bought a 1919 Buick. He was so sure of himself that he laughed at the county agent who wanted him to try contour plowing. Nertha coaxed him to learn how to read and write, but Pier cared more about breeding heifers...