Word: strengthen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chinese and Li Mi's Nationalist Chinese mix like the colors of a dangerous kaleidoscope. If they can fight their way to the Mekong River at the border of Laos and Burma, the Viet Minh Communist forces of Ho Chi Minh will be in a position to strengthen the anti-government forces in Burma...
...long ago, many Tories were grumping that the near-deaf, often crotchety and frequently high-handed old man ought to make way for someone younger. There was almost none of such talk last week. The rivalry between Butler and Foreign Secretary Eden for the succession has also served to strengthen Churchill's position in the party. (A Gallup poll last week showed Eden still the favorite over Butler, 64% to 8%, even though Eden's prestige has fallen...
...faculties in general. "By every test of war and peace," the report states, "universities have proven themselves indispensable instruments of cultural progress and national welfare." This statement should remind the public that the stream of research, products, and experts flowing from the universities to Washington has done more to strengthen the nation than the comparative trickle of red influence has poisoned...
Dubarry, speaking at the annual Pennsylvania Varsity Club dinner, said that both Athletic Director Frank Murray and head football coach George Manger will remain on their jobs. Murray and Manger are the focal points of the disagreement over the Penn athletic policy. Dubarry added that Penn will try to strengthen its Ivy ties...
...techniques (of RTOC) are of a trade school sort, in contrast to the courses designed to strengthen the muscles of the mind by challenging its interest and stimulating its exercise. The movements of history.....the problems of a dynamic social order, the curiosity that science arouses, are more effective to this end than memorizing bare facts. ......The general objection of educators is that the emphasis of ROTC is so exclusively on practical details of the "know how" to the neglect of the complimentary "know...