Word: strengthen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Victory for Adenauer would be great news for the West. It would: 1) confirm Germany's decision to rearm on the side of the West; 2) strengthen Germany's slow experiment in democracy by continuing strong, also stable government. It would bolster the faltering cause of European Union, in which Konrad Adenauer devoutedly believes...
...problems. Now it proved cumbersome when it had to treat with "local issues," like Trieste, Suez, the Saar. Korea was proof that multinational commands lead not to unity but to dissension, and the lesson learned there is that adding weak links to a chain does not strengthen it. Increasingly, the trend is for individual nations to go their own way, consulting their friends but not being bound by them...
Mutual Confidence. To strengthen the cause of freedom in the U.S., the Administration had labored to give the nation a government "honored at home and respected abroad." The federal payroll had been cut, and Government employees who were clearly bad security risks had been "swiftly expelled." Less dramatic but even closer to Ike's heart was the task of establishing mutual confidence between Congress and the Executive. This confidence, noted the President, "is not easy to perfect at a time when one great party, after 20 years of political life in the opposition, ousts another from office." Nonetheless, "both...
...privilege in life"), Herbert Hoover talked of his high hopes for the Federal Commission on the Reorganization of the Executive Branch, which he will head. Said he: "[Perhaps] the commission can contribute something to lessen what President Eisenhower has aptly described as our 'staggering economic burdens'. . . strengthen private enterprise, reduce the burdens of taxation, lessen bureaucratic tyranny over our citizens and generally improve the efficiency of our government...
Guttmann's solution was to strengthen his patient's back and abdominal muscles, so that he could use them to move his pelvis. He compares the process to the case of a man walking on stilts, who uses the upper part of the body instead of the leg and lower trunk muscles to get around. With the newly developed muscles, the paraplegic can hold himself erect and move his upper trunk, arms and shoulders. Guttmann found that the best way to keep the muscles strong was to launch a sports program. He invented the Stoke Mandeville swimming stroke...