Word: strengthen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Europe: "We are in complete agreement on the need for immediate action by all the North Atlantic Treaty countries ... to strengthen the Atlantic community." This was meant to reassure Europeans that the U.S. would not get so embroiled in Asia that it would be powerless to help other allies...
...Wonsan was evacuated by elements of the Army's 3rd Division, which were moved 50 miles north by sea to help hold a perimeter around Hamhung and Hungnam. The R.O.K. 3rd and Capital Divisions, which had also been evacuated by sea far up the northeastern coast, arrived to strengthen the defense arc around Hamhung. The U.S. 3rd formed a rescue force which rolled up the Changjin road and joined the hard-pressed marines and G.I.s of the southbound column, a few miles from Koto. The rescue party had been given the formidable job of opening the road and holding...
...propulsion engineer, declared that the opposite was true. Whittle launched a campaign to persuade 20 million of Britain's 50 million people to go to the Dominions. His argument, as expounded to the Council for a New Era of Emigration, is that mass emigration now would greatly strengthen the United Kingdom, especially if war should come. Britain's fundamental weakness, Airman Whittle believes, is its vulnerability through starvation if atom-bombed or blockaded. Declared Whittle of would-be emigrants: "They have felt they would be guilty of leaving a sinking ship, whereas the truth is that if they...
...almost evangelistic attitude about his success. He discusses himself in the third person-as "Hoppy" or "this character"-and seems to feel that he has retapped the same deep vein of American character which made the Old West, and that it is both his fate and his duty to strengthen the fiber of U.S. youth...
Princeton has announced the receipt of a half million dollar gift to establish the Albert G. Milbank Professorship of International Law. President Dodds of Princeton said the new chair will strengthen the recently established center for research on international political institutions...