Word: strengthen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this, while intended and designed to strengthen freedom's defense," he says, "carries within itself the very germs of freedom's destruction. For it etches the pattern to a military state which, historically under the control of professional military thinking, in constant search for means toward efficiency, has found in freedom possibly its greatest single impediment ... To avoid this historic pitfall it is essential that civilian control over the citizen army be extended and intensified. Particularly is this true in the administration of the program of Universal Military Training, if the youth of our land is to avoid...
...essential that the traditional role of the Army in these distressing times be carefully preserved-that it not be used as an instrument of tyranny or oppression -a form of pretorian guard-by those seeking to strengthen and entrench political power-but that it be used instead as a force of free men dedicated to its sworn purpose of 'defending the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic...
...recent policy the Administration has tried to strengthen the Houses as centers of undergraduate activity. ROTC teams are only working at cross purposes with this policy by drawing their athletes from the Houses "A" and "B" basketball leagues. The army squad even offers a subsidy of sorts by giving its athletes participation credits; unfortunately, the Houses are in no position to construct comparable lures...
...print such a vulgar, ugly picture as Pieter Bruegel's "The Wedding Dance" in the Nov. 26 issue? It takes up much valuable space and its sensuality is far from ennobling. We need pictures that help strengthen our moral fibre...
Long Squeeze. How then are we to release the present intolerable tension in Europe? To rearm goes without saying. Equally important, but less obvious, we must strengthen the Iron Curtain, for the following reason...