Word: strengthened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said the Socialist Avanti: "We want to hurry up and strengthen the vast movement of union among the working classes and to isolate through counteraction the Fascist minority and reactionary forces behind the scenes...
...been in office too long and has lost its original impetus. Yet we are not yet willing to risk our Ship of State in the hands of men who are not wholeheartedly in favor of doing our full part toward international peace. ... I believe that Dewey would substantially strengthen his party and consequently his chances of becoming President if he let it be known that he would like to have Wendell Willkie as his Secretary of State...
...Shadow. "Young Teddy" spent the first half of his life overshadowed by his father, and most of the last half overshadowed by his fifth cousin, Franklin. Like his father, he had been sickly and nearsighted as a boy, and had rough & tumbled to strengthen himself. Like his father, he hunted big game and captured big headlines on spectacular safaris; he shot tapirs and jaguars in Brazil's Matto Grosso, became the first American to bag a panda, hunted timarau in the Philippines, spotted blue sheep and golden monkeys in Asia. Like his father and Cousin Franklin, he had started...
...treating with sympathy the problems which affect Latin America, TIME has helped to strengthen the goodunder standing between our peoples," writes Mexico's famed Minister of Foreign Relations Ezequiel Padilla. "Telling the complete truth in all cases has won for TIME the highest prestige" writes Enrique Santos, Editor of Bogota's great newspaper, El Tiempo. "You are performing a magnificent service," says E. C. Givens...
...clearly dominates, Grand Master Botvinnik is itching to get back into international competition. Last week he hailed with delight a U.S. Chess Review proposal for a radio match between the ten best U.S. chessmen and Russia's best ten. Said the Grand Master: "I think it will . . . strengthen the cultural relations between the United Nations...