Word: strengthened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...struggle between the two systems, the capitalist powers have three lines of strategy. They must: 1) try to turn the social-democratic parties and non-Communist trade unions into allies; 2) strengthen the Catholic and Protestant Churches and Islam; 3) encourage fascism "in a veiled form." The Catholic Church, Varga charges, is organizing a "Catholic International...
...training of a paraplegic starts almost from scratch. David could not dress himself or put on braces without help, could barely sit erect. But after six weeks of push-ups and other exercises to strengthen arms, shoulders and abdominal muscles, he was ready to begin crutch work. To walk, he had to learn to swing his body by gravity, like a pendulum. But learning to walk is only part of it. For a paraplegic, getting in & out of a chair or opening a door is a major undertaking, made up of many intricate, precisely timed movements which take weeks...
...Communist officials in the Crimea (whose "autonomous" republic was abolished by Moscow last June because the local population had sided with the Germans) were fired for failure to "strengthen the collective farms...
...Communist Party "disciplining" the Red Army-the one power in Russia that might conceivably replace it? That seemed unlikely. Last week Red Star and Red Fleet, official organs of the Soviet Army and Navy, began a campaign to strengthen Communist Party organization in the armed forces. Red Star called for improvement in the Army's "weak and timid" propaganda discussions, and said that to "guarantee our state interests" the Party must reach thousands of officers who lack "serious political education...
Livingstone pointed out the need for civilian control of atomic energy to promote the peacetime use of the power and to strengthen our position in the international control councils. He added that he hoped the Liberal Union would take steps to urge the removal of crippling amendments to the McMahon bill, which calls for civilian control...