Word: strengthen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...winter and a rainy, grape-thwarting summer had turned 1956 into a bad year for all western Europe's winegrowers-a disastrous one for Bordeaux and West Germany, a poor one in both quantity and quality for Burgundy. The government has 'already given Burgundy producers permission to strengthen some of their poorer grades by chaptalization. a doctoring process devised by one Jean Chaptal for adding sugar during fermentation to build up a wine's alcoholic content...
After the crowd howled approval, Herman took the oath, pledged himself to strengthen the white primary and Georgia's county unit-voting system. Flanked by family and advisers, he marched one flight down to the governor's office, where outgoing Governor Ellis Arnall awaited the legislature's decision. Said Herman: "I have come to take over." Snapped Arnall: "I consider you a pretender. Get out." Herman got, was back in seven hours, after state troopers had changed the locks on the doors. Herman Talmadge held the Capitol and the governor's mansion until the State Supreme...
Rather than crush our allies beneath a military burden, or force them into a European "Third Bloc," we can strengthen them and our ties with them through a vastly expanded program of economic exchange inside the framework of NATO...
English 10 already holds section meetings in the Houses, but they are basically tutorial for Sophomores rather than a regular class. They are an attempt to strengthen tutorial, rather than part of a general plan to expand the intellectual role of the Houses...
...honor, "that competition might well be substituted for complacency" in a British economy that is largely burdened by "timeconsuming inefficiency. If larger and more efficient firms in the United Kingdom were to stop holding umbrellas over the less efficient and were to expose them to real competition, it would strengthen your country's position in world trade and bring better standards of living at home...