Word: strengthened
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...farm economy, we would be better off without him." Then Estes fired his wildest carronade at President Eisenhower for General Alfred Gruenther's retirement as NATO commander (see below): "General Gruenther has been disappointed with the fact that in recent years there has been no effort to strengthen the NATO organization ... I think the blame for doing nothing to build up NATO rests with the Administration and the President...
...force for the G.O.P., there is another more effective ''one party" Democratic press: the Washington press corps. An estimated 85% of the correspondents in the capital, conditioned in the Depression and under the New Deal, have political reflexes that respond favorably to Democrats, unfavorably to Republicans. They strengthen their reflexes daily by reading the Post, where their reactions are shared by most of the Post's top brass, including Managing Editor Al Friendly, 44, an active charter member of Americans for Democratic Action, and Publisher Graham himself...
...strengthen our national security, expand our influence, and play the role in world affairs for which our history has prepared us, in the face of the political, economic, and ideological challenge which is now being generated by Moscow, we shall need to consider our relations with the world from a far broader perspective. Out of this broader perspective we must hope that a new majority consensus will emerge which recognizes the fact that we live in a world that is a community and which is prepared responsibly to support policies flowing from that premise. If this consensus fails to develop...
...explore the ludicrous proportions of each melodramatic character. When he falters, it is generally when the action needs spiking with a few irrelevant laughs, which he gets by contemporary cynical asides to the audience. They rather destroy the continuing tone of the play, and therefore probably weaken more than strengthen. The best humor is milked from his straight and well-cooked dialogue, which director Edward Thommen exploits to the limit...
...Whitelock emphasized, the new program is not designed to strengthen Dudley or to model it after the other Houses. Its purpose is to enable individuals to benefit by living in the Harvard community...