Word: strengthened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...taking some conciliatory steps toward Peking is based on the likelihood that after the passing of Mao, who is 75, there will be a power struggle in China between the moderates and Mao-style radicals. An easing of tensions between the U.S. and Peking, goes the theory, would strengthen the moderates. Therefore, it might well be unwise to wait until the new regime is actually in place before the U.S. restyles its policy. By trying to draw China into the world mainstream, however futile at present, the U.S. could at least put the onus of intransigence on Peking. At best...
...Hope, L.H.D., entertainer. You, sir, are an American institution; you strengthen our willingness as Americans to accept the responsibilities of being Americans...
GUNTER GRASS believes in democracy. He disapproves of the German students on the Far Left as much as he does those on the neo-Nazi right, because both are trying to destroy Germany's democracy rather than strengthen it. In the series of speeches, open letters, and articles translated in Speak Out!, Grass presents his vision of what the German state should be, and his criticisms of West Germany...
...politicians, were willing to give the Chancellor too much power, were not really interested in their democracy. If those faults can now be corrected, then democracy, which Grass considers Germany's most hopeful course at the present, can succeed. So naturally, he believes that working to strengthen democracy-partly by criticizing it-is more important than trying to destroy the imperfect democracy that now exists...
...country and the puppet traitors are overthrown." Added Ho: "I look forward to hearing of great and glorious new victories against the enemy." It is bellicose talk, but no American analyst could say for certain whether Ho really meant it-or whether it was only rhetoric intended to strengthen the Communists' bargaining position before they enter serious peace negotiations. Most likely, it was part of the present effort to test the resolve of the new American President and to determine whether the Communists can gain the most by fighting or by talking -or by continuing to do both...