Word: strengthened
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Administration caught between two conflicting sets of promises-to reduce the budget and strengthen our defenses? Did it choose the former [i.e., the "new look"] because the one thing that could not be cut, the sine qua non of our security, was the new weapons and air power...
Neither major political party would like anything better in this election year than to present itself as the only true friend of the U.S. taxpayer. Republicans are painfully sensitive to charges that the G.O.P. is trying to "fatten the herd by feeding the bulls," i.e., strengthen the economy by tax relief to business rather than to the individual. Democrats, who during years of governmental responsibility suffered the onus of high taxes, are now beginning to enjoy themselves−and they have lined up behind an effort to lower taxes by increasing individual income-tax exemptions...
Leverett House defeated Kirkland, 59 to 47 last night to strengthen its lead in the "A" League Basketball race. The defeat dropped Kirkland to third place. In other games, Eliot downed Adams, 52 to 35, and Winthrop topped Lowell...
...enemies-and most of his friends. Last week energetic Mario Scelba set out to prove them wrong. Before putting his Cabinet and his program to a vote of confidence, Scelba first anointed wounds in his own Christian Democratic Party. The violence of outside opposition to him seemed to strengthen support inside the party. He courteously consulted ruffled deputies. He dashed off an earnest public message to Party Leader Alcide de Gasperi: "On my taking office . . . my first affectionate, devout and admiring thought goes to you." He made a personal trip out the New Appian Way to a convent where resides...
...Mainichi, the country's leading newspapers. The bulk of the Teachers Union membership, it was agreed, is not Communist; newspapers aptly call the union tancho-zuru, after a native crane with a white body and a small, red head. But action taken against the whole group would strengthen the Communists' hand. Also, warned Mainichi: "Twisted interpretation of the laws could place the nation's education system under police control...