Word: strengthening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fleet, dispatched to the Eastern Mediterranean to "hold up the hand" of Jordan's King Hussein against his enemies, churned the waters from Syria to Egypt in a dramatic display of U.S. might. At the same time Jordan requested-and Washington immediately supplied-a $10 million grant to strengthen young King Hussein's struggle to rid his country of Communists and pro-Nasser extremists. Key Jordanian stipulation, to which the U.S. readily agreed: the U.S. money must be explicitly separate from doctrine funds. Moreover, said King Hussein, Jordan "had no intention" of inviting Richards to discuss the doctrine...
...hoped that the program will encourage closer relations between public school systems and private universities throughout the country and strengthen school policies and programs...
Already possessing conventional forces, West Germany has been committed, because of her location, to a "deter or die" position. Nuclear armaments promise to strengthen deterrent power; while Germany will be wiped out anyway, in the event...
When news of Norman's death reached Ottawa, Mike Pearson rose in the House of Commons to pronounce an epitaph: "All his actions served only to confirm and strengthen my faith in and my admiration for him. The combined effect of overwork, overstrain, and the feeling of renewed persecution on a sensitive mind and a not very robust body produced a nervous collapse." But Pearson refused to send a new official protest to Washington: "There is no point in making an international issue of this...
Joel Bernstein is still slated to open the varsity's local season, but it is much less certain who will be behind the plate. Of late, Coach Norm Shepard has been trying Matt Botsford, presumably to strengthen the offense, but it is more than possible that Phil Haughey may get a chance to cure his batting troubles, at least in the beginning...