Word: strengthened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...patient use of a "tidal drainage" system, the paralyzed bladder and bowels are conditioned to empty themselves automatically at regular intervals. Learning to walk is more difficult. In most cases success depends mainly on 1 ) convincing the patient of the incredible fact that walking is possible, 2) exercises to strengthen' the arms and shoulders (which supply the power for swinging the legs). Finally comes training for a job that a man can do with head and hands alone...
...Companions. Stettinius made capital of his frequent telephone checks with President Truman and Cordell Hull, never failing to give them credit for advice or decisions, when doing so would strengthen the U.S. position. He relied on daily, minute "briefings" by his department experts, remembered what he was told with amazing exactitude, and did not hide the fact that he would often have been at a loss without this assistance...
Franklin Roosevelt liked the speech. He knew it would strengthen his hand at Yalta (he took 50 copies along). At Yalta he also made Arthur Vandenberg a mem ber of the U.S. delegation to San Francisco...
...peace, according to a statement released last night by some 2000 members of the American Psychological Association, headed by Gordon W. Allport '19, professor of Psychology. Declaring that "war can be avoided; it is not built into men," the group laid down a program of ten basic methods to strengthen the foundations of peace...
With each victory the Red lines shortened. More & more troops turned away, painted "to Berlin" and "to Stettin" on their tanks and vehicles, and hurried to join Zhukov. These were the men Marshal Zhukov awaited, the men to strengthen his lines for the final blow through the Oder defenses to Berlin and beyond...