Word: strengthed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Green: "Our defense at home & abroad is not in arms alone, but in every means that builds for freedom and human welfare . . . The Congress has voted a European Recovery Program because it believes that the free nations of the world can grow in strength and unity . . . Our task is to put the world on its feet, and not on our back . . ." The promise was to be repeated, in more solemn tones, by Herbert Hoover the next night...
Target: A 2,000,000-man military establishment (up 600,000-by a draft and enlistments-from present strength...
Upton Sinclair's first play in nine years-Giant's Strength-had its 2 ½-hour debut at the hands of a Claremont, Calif. community playhouse. The critics who attended gave it "mixed notices" and confused ones. Some thought it was a sort of cheerful Skin of Our Teeth. Playwright Sinclair, who had stayed away from the rehearsals, stayed away from the opening...
From the fall of France on through World War II, Winston Churchill was a symbol of the reserve strength of the democratic world. He was the living proof of its power to rise above defeat, of its courage, its humor and its ability to produce better and more intelligent citizens than the fanatics who were trained under other systems. For all his great public reputation, he was the embodiment of the unknown quantity in world politics, the something that exists in addition to all the figures on aircraft, combat divisions, tanks, factories and naval vessels...
...Tactics. Sinarquistas are as dead set as ever against the anticlerical ideas of the Mexican revolution. But their tactics have changed. The little clique of lawyers who run the movement has begun to translate its strength into political power. Whether this is due to the new party's energetic young president, Schoolmaster Seferino Sánchez Hidalgo, or to two key leaders, Enrique Marfin and Hidalgo Gonzalez (now conferring with Falangist chiefs in Spain), is not clear...