Word: strengthened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Effect on girls all over the nation has not been calculated, but most sociologists, who feel that the Sinatra complex is a phase of a mass-loneliness cycle caused by the war, would say that this will strengthen the whole thing: if the U. S. Army won't mother him, the girls will probably want to comfort him about the whole thing: he feels terrible about it. It appears that he had been boasting to his friends about how he was going to make the grade and become a private...
Russia. A stiffened Wehrmacht, bogged roads, overextended lines slowed the Red advance, halted it in some places. The Germans counterattacked, retook the rail center of Zhitomir, at the least gained time to strengthen a rear defense line...
...finally became ex-OCDirector (TIME, Aug. 16). Translated into Iraqi, his new title should roll impressively off the tongue: "American Director of Economic Operations in the Middle East and principal American Civilian Representative at the Middle East Supply Center, with the personal rank of Minister." His job: to strengthen the U.S. management of the Middle East Supply Center, a joint U.S.-British project which routes civilian supplies to some 80 million friendly peoples in the area...
...Neither the present Argentine Government nor its predecessor has at any time evidenced a disposition to strengthen the security of Argentina by having Argentine military and naval forces take part in measures designed for the defense of the hemisphere. . . . Since Argentine armed forces will not . . . be used . . . to forward . . . the security of the New World . . . it would be impossible for the President of the United States to . . . furnish arms and munitions to Argentina under the Lend-Lease...
...earlier, in a statement on domestic policy before the Supreme Council of the Falange, Franco led some observers to believe he was toying with the idea of restoring the monarchy under Falange auspices and control, as a sop to advisers who feel that such a move would strengthen Spain's bargaining position with the Allies. Said he: "The regime firmly installed by us may adopt [a monarchy], without prejudice to our revolution or realization of our historic destiny...