Word: strengthened
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Harry Truman's justifications for his veto were not new. Chester Bowles, who resigned as Economic Stabilization Director last week in an evident move to strengthen the President's veto hand, had made the same arguments to Congressmen many times-and a majority of both Houses had rejected them...
...almost invariably, are sterling. The effects, deplorable," said one thoughtful Latin American last week. "You equip a dictator's army to modern standards and you provide the dictator with an unfailing instrument to perpetuate his tyranny. Do the same in a fledgling Latin American democracy, and you strengthen the already heady military caste...
...time when the Army is valiantly striving to increase its enlistment totals, such an example of army justice can hardly be called a recruiting inducement. With the teen-age draft bill still under debate in Congress, it cannot conceivably strengthen the Army's case. What the courts-martial board decides, in the case of Colonel Kilian, now on trial, is yet to be seen. But those who saw some hope for democratization of the army with the apprehension of the top-ranking officers of the Tenth Depot have since realized their sadness, in observing the inequalities of the punishment meted...
With a brisk dialectical handspring, Yudin showed that this was not only necessary but logical: "To bring about the abolition of the state, the state itself must be consolidated still further.... Stalin has . . . proved that the state must be preserved. . . . The Soviet Union will strengthen the army and all state organs." The additional army is needed because "the victory of socialism cannot be regarded as definite and final while the Soviet Union is surrounded ... by capitalist states which are constantly sending in a stream of diversionists and spies...
...current lottery-loan is to support the five-year plan and to "strengthen the military and economic might of the nation." One item in the plan: atomic development...