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Word: strengthening (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, after the election, Univis reopened, gave an 11?-an-hour raise to returning workers. The union retaliated by drawing "observers"' from other C.I.O. unions to strengthen its picket lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Brass Knuckles | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

...must design a foreign policy which will espouse and promote liberal, humanitarian programs for the masses of people of the world. It must strengthen the democratic forces in other nations and not entrench reactionary interests that thirst for power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPINION: A System That Works | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

...able to; in fact, it seemed to have reached the point where it was lingering betwixt a balk and a breakdown. Last week, under pressure from thousands of their constituents, six Congressmen trooped before the House Foreign Affairs Committee to plead that the U.S. do something-anything-to strengthen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Change U.N,? | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

...differences. What happens? The controversy is passed on to Congress and we here are thus required to resolve a technical dispute between professionals. It is utterly preposterous and would be comical if the consequences were not so dangerous." There was a move on foot to revise the law to strengthen the Secretary's hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Victory for Air Power | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

...ideas must emphatically mean that we do not uphold any regime abroad, no matter how corrupt, provided only that it is antiCommunist. At its best such a course would be stupidity, at its worst it would be nihilism. In any event it would simply strengthen the Communist cause. We are not-we must not be-on the horns of a dilemma of which one prong is Communism and the other prong is Fascism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: The Strongest Force | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

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