Word: strengthening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...premises of the campaign will be, first, firmness in foreign policy, and second, fiscal responsibility. Barry Goldwater wants to be President, and I want to be Vice President. But we want to conduct ourselves in such a way that whether we actually achieve this or not, we will strengthen our party, thereby strengthening the two-party system in this country. If we have any trouble achieving unity, all we have to do is look at the bitterness the Democrats had to face in 1960 after their convention. They got together after bitter primary and convention fights...
...trifle clumsily, the U.S. last week tried to tiptoe to the rescue of the Congo government. Alarmed at the mounting conquests of leftist-backed warriors and unable to interest friendly African or European countries in helping Premier Moise Tshombe's beleaguered government, Washington decided to "strengthen" its military and economic...
...African nations still controlled by white minorities. Blasting the committee for its "inexcusable" failure to make effective use of Egyptian and Algerian military experience, Nkrumah cried: "We have worsened the plight of our kinsmen in Angola, Mozambique, Southern Rhodesia and South Africa. We have frightened the imperialists sufficiently to strengthen their defenses, but not enough to make them abandon apartheid and white supremacy...
...millions of people have never seen a railroad. The ties that bind are the air lanes. In Santíago, Chile, last week, 30 Latin American and U.S. aviation officials, including FAA Head Najeeb Halaby and CAB Chief Alan Boyd, gathered for a five-day discussion of ways to strengthen Latin America's aerial life line. Out of the meeting came an astonishing picture of aviation in a developing continent of only 220 million people...
...concerned, Anglican Communion already resembles too closely the Roman Catholic Mass; and the measure to permit the use of the alb (a long-sleeved white tunic), the chasuble (a poncholike garment), the amice (a linen neckcloth) and the maniple (a band of cloth worn on the left arm) would strengthen what the London Times called a "drift toward the Roman Catholic form of service...