Word: strengthened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...George Cross, decreed George VI, "ranks next to the Victoria Cross" (which is the supreme British decoration awarded for valor in the Armed Forces), and the George Medal is "for wider distribution" -i.e., will probably be awarded wholesale among British fire fighters and airraid wardens of valor. Purpose: to strengthen the morale of the civil population, which was inevitably beginning to feel the strain...
Candidate Willkie saw in the deal an arrangement that would greatly strengthen the U. S. in the defense of America and refused to seize the issue. In his first sentence he embraced the deal itself without qualification, reserved his criticism entirely for the manner of its making. In the eyes of some practical politicians he had thrown away his best chance for election...
...pointed to $26,000,000 worth of plant expansion in 1937, $30,000,000 worth last year. As for the ingot monopoly, Alcoa's claim has always been that anyone was at liberty to compete, but few had ever tried. Last week, in the nick of time to strengthen Alcoa's case, an ingot competitor hove into view...
Next, instead of going ahead with the formation of a huge Cabinet, Premier Konoye called together these three men to clarify their platform. Every plank was new as fresh-cut pine. They agreed to strengthen ties with the Axis; to shake up Japan's diplomatic personnel (i. e., inject a few chauvinists) ; to establish a "zone of stability in East Asia" (i. e., Japan's sphere of exclusive domination) ; to re-examine Japanese-Soviet relations, with a view to possible rapprochement; to end "reliance" on the U. S. and Great Britain; to leave political-party members...
American Youth Commission's Howard Y. McClusky: "Without exception the dictators of Europe have risen to power upon the shoulders of bewildered youth. What the youth of America think and do is of supreme importance to all of us. We want them to uphold and strengthen our democracy-but we will have to show them and give them a democracy that works...