Word: strengthened
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With Due Deference. The Peking meeting was an undisguised personal reverse that could only strengthen the position of the men in Moscow who had regarded his Mideast summit policy as rash and unsound. The Russian censors even let pass an A.P. dispatch suggesting that Khrushchev's stature had been diminished in Moscow...
...student body of 85 girls, a poorly maintained plant of seven buildings, and the added liability of existing in a town weakened by the closing of textile mills. By recruiting twelve new firms, the college helped Springvale get back on its financial feet, and was thus able to strengthen its own finances. Nasson now seems well on the way to solving its problems with 16 tidy buildings, a coed enrollment of 286 and a slowly growing endowment...
...high-rated Santa Clara Swim Club, gave her a cursory look and ordered some laps in the pool. Haines checked back later, found Chris had done 115 laps, went to work at making her a champion. Haines was satisfied with her powerful kick, but worked long hours to strengthen her arm and shoulder muscles, taught her a high recovery stroke for greater power. In her basement at home, Chris wrestled doggedly with pulleys and weights...
...import restrictions: heavily criticized in Canada, the restrictions were aimed to strengthen the U.S.'s defenses by encouraging domestic exploration for oil, were drafted to minimize their effect on Canada (other U.S. officials said that quotas have had no effect on Canadian oil sales...
...bachelor's life was supposedly blighted. Discovered some time between 1909 and 1912, the "lost journal" did not find its way into the pine box (now part of the Pierpont Morgan Library) until 1956. Though it clarified nothing of Thoreau's love life, it did at least strengthen the claim that his precise, craftsmanlike hand had fashioned the box, for the 39 notebooks made a snugly perfect...