Word: strengthen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...propose the expansion of certain domestic programs." And with that muted trumpet blast, the Administration turned away from three years of stern domestic budget-trimming to heed the clamor for some home-front expansion. The State Department, Ike said, needs an $89 million raise "to strengthen" its staff, to build a new wing on its main building in Washington and new embassies and consulates abroad. The new federal school-construction program (see EDUCATION) requires a substantial down payment on the $2 billion to be spent over the next five years, and the National Science Foundation needs a 156% raise...
...strengthen the University policy of intergrating subjects. Physics 12c will turn literary and call itself "The Sound and the Furry." Also Nat. Sci. 3 in expected to become "Copernicus and Me," and Anthre 1 "Life With Father...
...October. "The Soviet leaders are not yet willing to create the indispensable conditions for a secure and lasting peace," he said. "Communist tactics against the free nations have shifted in emphasis from reliance on violence ... to reliance on division, enticement and duplicity." The U.S., therefore, needed to maintain and strengthen its collective security pacts with free countries, its own "long-haul" program of military preparedness. The U.S. needed to press its quest for regional objectives: in Asia, "help to nations struggling to maintain their freedom"; in Europe, "a greater measure of integration"; in the Middle East, "a fair solution...
...Richard Nixon, Secretary Dulles) and a frantic round of handshaking and speechmaking. Everywhere he stressed the point that Brazil remains a staunch friend of the U.S., with both feet firmly in the camp of democracy. The U.S.'s "stimulating atmosphere of freedom and progress," he said, "could but strengthen, were it necessary, my profound democratic convictions and my confidence in the fortunes of the free world to which our two nations belong...
...University should seek to strengthen the program of the Graduate School of Education in the near future to help counter the nation's shortage of teachers, according to President Pusey's third annual report, released this morning. His statement indicates plans for a shift in emphasis from rebuilding of the Divinity School to improving facilities for teacher training...