Word: strengthening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Diefenbaker told earnestly of his hopes that Canada can strengthen its economic bonds with Britain, but refused to say he wanted to weaken his country's economic ties with the U.S. "Will you reduce American investment and domination in Canada?" one reporter asked. Diefenbaker's crisp answer: "I don't understand that question at all. We welcome any investment at all, from wherever it comes...
Citation: "Twice elected to the vice-presidency of the U.S., you have brought to that high office a new dignity and usefulness which strengthen our political system...
...waiting for the U.S. to change its "sterile" China policy. Senate Republican Leader William Knowland, unyielding foe of Peking and long twitted as the ''Senator from Formosa," rose on the Senate floor to warn that the British trade might "some day in the not too distant future strengthen Communist China to the point where it can feel it dares to take the risk of taking over the crown colony of Hong Kong. This is a calculated risk for which Her Majesty's ministers must alone bear the responsibility...
...called on the U.S. to help Communist Poland maintain its independence by granting the Poles' request for $200 million in U.S. agricultural surpluses (TIME, March 25). And in making his point, Democrat Kennedy took on the argument advanced by Senate Republican Leader Bill Knowland that such aid might strengthen the Communist bloc...
MICHAEL : I, Michael, shall go and order the heavenly hosts to let him walk on earth without any protection . . . And should he sink down on his knees with the sweat breaking out of him like drops of blood under the burden of the curse of being Man, I shall strengthen him only from afar that he might continue to suffer, just as he gave consolation to the believers, consoling them in order that they might continue to suffer...