Word: strengthened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when all the tinsel and touting are swept away, what they want, after all, is the pleasure of giving, a tradition and a need that is older than Christendom. Pagans celebrated the winter solstice with bonfires to strengthen the sun in its course, exchanged wreaths and candles and crowded their streets in noisy processions. The Romans celebrated the Saturnalia (Dec. 19-25) by giving presents to the poor and in return received garlands, tapers or grains of frankincense. On the Kalends of January (Jan. 1-3), Roman men gave one another "honeyed things" to ensure a year of sweetness, lamps...
Students, though avowedly communist, show the same lack of commitment to dogma, both speakers agreed. Kennedy commended the Political Institute in Costa Rica, a school educating the democratically oriented in an attempt to "strengthen their ideology and train them to organize parties that can combat the communists...
...vital, therefore, that Tocsin read and consider a wide index of student attitudes at their organizational meeting tonight. Hopefully, the type of support they receive will strengthen the likelihood of a useful and pertinent demonstration in Washington...
Opening their season at 5 p.m. today, the freshman fencing team will vie with M.I.T. Marion said he particularly hoped for a good performance by the foll segment of the squad, so some of its mem-could strengthen the weak varsity foil squad next season...
...present stage of development with that of the early American colonies. Actively playing the neutrality game, however, he asserted that "capital and technical knowledge have no respect for political frontiers," and insisted that he had no reason to apologize for "the steps we have taken recently to strengthen our trade and economic relations with the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and China...