Word: strengthening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...continued functioning of those installations can only strengthen the North Vietnamese effort to subvert every noncommunist nation in Southeast Asia," he asserted...
...President István Dobi by Pál Losonczi, a farming expert who has served as Hungary's Minister of Agriculture since 1960. Both appointments reflect the desire of Party Boss János Kádár, the country's real ruler, to strengthen his own position. Kádár, who called back the Russian tanks during the 1956 uprising in Hungary, has shrewdly conciliated the voices of economic reform in recent years. He knows that in order to dampen opposition within his own party, he must placate the westward-looking economists...
...medical evidence is mounting that a good deal of marijuana currently sold to students is adulterated, indeed often "laced" with mixtures of other hallucinogenic drugs to strengthen the effects of the drug. Marijuana is not a specific product but a variable mixture of flowers, leaves, stems, and sometimes the roots of the hemp plant. The mixture may be weak or strong in its physiological effects, and where it is weak, invites adulteration. The fact is a person buying "marijuana" has no way of knowing what he is actually getting...
...emphasis on the municipal elections, confident that a popular surge of votes for his Christian Democrats would intimi date his opponents. The people failed to respond to the president's pleas for a vote of confidence, giving his party only 35% of the vote. That outcome can only strengthen the obduracy of his enemies...
...dissatisfaction continuum in them. For the 1964 sample only, students who admitted they had felt out of place, or who said they were not having a very good time at Harvard were overrepresented in the psychiatric group. Although the association could not be replicated, the data do tend to strengthen our findings about the dissatisfaction variable...