Word: strengthened
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coca Colas are still permitted, but the University has announced that "the serving of alcoholic beverages at social functions is prohibited. . ." In announcing the ban, Brown's Dean Bergethon said that he hoped the ruling would "strengthen the hand of students who oppose this kind of behavior...
...having no army or frontier guards, the Bhutanese were unable to prevent numbers of Tibetans from crossing into Bhutan. Many of these uninvited visitors turned out to be Chinese in Tibetan clothing. On the other side of the mountains, Red China is building a road toward Bhutan. To strengthen his government the King recently set up a Central Advisory Council composed of elders elected by tiny villages. Explained Jigme: "We have begun to sow a few seeds of democracy...
...economy." ¶ "To stay free we must stay strong. Though we must recognize that peace cannot be gained by arms alone, yet we must gird ourselves with sufficient military strength to discourage resort to war and to protect our nation's vital interests; moreover, we must help to strengthen the collective defense of free nations...
...pact countries. Enrolling the U.S. as a full member of the pact's economic committee, Henderson sought to show that no new colonialism was intended: "We desire to work with groups of nations which have banded together for their common security and welfare, and so to strengthen them that they will demonstrate to other nations in the area that such cooperation is the true road to the achievement of national aspirations." Before the sessions ended, the U.S. also joined the pact's countersubversion committee...
...Rukhimovich, commissar of defense industry; and M. S. Kedrov, chief of the defense section of the State Planning Commission. The point about all these liquidated Old Bolsheviks was that they were all connected with Russian defense. Said Voprosi Istorii drily: "There were many other comrades who did much to strengthen the Red army whose names have not been mentioned in historical literature in recent years...