Word: strengthened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Times's editorial enterprise was rewarded last week with a Pulitzer Prize* for local coverage. Like many another metropolitan daily facing expanding competition from TV, radio and magazines, the Times is working overtime to strengthen the local reporting, which is a newspaper's major asset. It is to the Times's credit that, Pulitzer or no, it is still not satisfied with its home-town coverage. The paper's own editorial brass feels that it has scored most of its successes so far on national and international coverage...
...strengthen Harvard's first doubles, Barnaby has teamed Gonzalez with Brian Davis, a powerful off-hand player with sharp volleys and lightning reflexes. Barnaby has tried this combination twice in team matches, but they may not have played together long enough to react in co-ordination like the Yale or Dartmouth pairs. Adelsberg and Kileff -- the slugger and the runner -- form Harvard's incongruous second doubles team...
...essence of intervention, Bissell said, is to find allies within other countries and strengthen them. He warned against choosing the "doomed" and "hopelessly incompetent" as allies...
...party's left and showed that he no longer needs the twelve votes of the Liberals, who have opposed nationalization. But the price he paid may well upset Britain's touch-and-go economy, and will certainly alarm the businessmen on whom he depends to strengthen it. New figures last week showed that Labor has not yet closed the trade gap: it widened from $165,200,000 in February to $215,600,000 in March...
...They Kill You." As for the American League, Casey Stengel would hardly recognize his old New York Yankees. At 34, and $100,000 per, Mickey Mantle was warming the bench and lifting sandbags to strengthen the right shoulder which was operated on for removal of a bone chip last winter. The Yanks' new centerfielder was Roy White, a 22-year-old rookie who has never played anything but second base before, Whitey Ford's sore arm was nowhere near as sore as his head-after he pitched seven innings against the Mets' Jacksonville farm club and gave...