Word: strengthened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crerar's First Canadian Army had taken Goch, and was throwing in an armored attack behind a five-hour artillery barrage. Between Crerar and Simpson, the British Second Army was waiting to jump off. Field Marshal von Rundstedt could hardly afford to weaken any of these sectors to strengthen the Cologne plain...
...Mercersburg Academy. When he entered Yale three years ago, he was ready for squatty Bob Kiphuth's swimming course for advanced students. A fanatic on physical condition, Coach Kiphuth put Ford through the usual ten weeks of exercises to build belly, back and chest muscles, other exercises to strengthen arm depressors, hip-joint flexors and extensors. Then Kiphuth got to work on Ford's form. After three years of bringing his stroke close to perfection, Ford has one final problem : the necessity of breathing. If he did not have to turn his head now & then, there would...
...Zhukov paused, to strengthen his grip. Perhaps there was no great danger, but there was still some danger in attempting a quick blow against Berlin. Zhukov well knew what the Germans knew too well: that a sprawling city becomes a fortress, that an attacking force risks being pinched into its ruins by flank attacks. That was what Zhukov had done to the Germans at Stalingrad...
...beds so much detested by Queen Victoria. They are just wide enough for one. . . . As they separate man and wife I am opposed to them. A man who has a wife he does not delight to sleep with is badly married. . . . [Sleeping together] tends to make good husbands, to strengthen the influence of the wife, and to improve her position in the family. It cannot be otherwise, because it tends to increased friendship and mutuality of life, and is one of the reasons why American husbands are better than German or French husbands, and why a woman's position...
...would strengthen the nation," Waring asserts, "to have more men with a knowledge of the social sciences enter the small town newspaper field and become part of their communities. There are unlimited opportunities for helping in matters of public health, race relations, planning and zoning, and economic improvement...