Word: strengthed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recent months I, as well as many of my associates, have regarded with increasing alarm the rapid demobilization of not only our entire armed strength, but also the small army of occupation we are maintaining...
...audit of U.S. books in China. Admittedly on the debit side was the failure of General Marshall's mission to break the Kuomintang-Communist deadlock. But on the credit side was the repatriation of nearly 3,000,000 Japanese troops, and a slash in U.S. troop strength from 113,000 to less than...
...railroads, bossed the left-wing majority in Congress. Under moderate President Avila Camacho he was stripped of most of his power, but he hung on by winning Latin American labor leadership. Within Mexico he now badly needs prestige. Both C.T.M. (the Mexican labor movement) and C.T.A.L. have lost strength because they have been so doggedly Stalinist. Possibly Lombardo may now be trying to recoup by walking away from the party line...
...more respect for Tommy Bell's left hook. For six rounds, he followed Louis' advice, relying on jab-&-retreat rather than toe-to-toe mayhem. When he finally cut loose in the eleventh, Robinson had Bell glassy-eyed and ready for a K.O.-but lacked the strength to drive home the finishing punch. After hearing himself announced as new welterweight champ, Sugar Ray stood in his corner, dog-tired and happy, but not quite the world-beater he was cracked...
...reporter like that was no man to stop halfway with the Peggy Joyce item. There was Joey Adams to see ("I just didn't know my own strength"), and he who got socked ("I just walked up behind her, and kissed her once, and said something about 'How about marrying me, Babe?' Really, I don't remember. . . ."). Then there was Eyewitness Jorge Benavides. a Peruvian delegate to U.N. Said he: "In Peru, we do what you do here in America. We bop him on the nose, like you say. Is that correct? Please do not involve...