Word: strengthening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...questioned the Government's ability to make its planned tax reforms effective while great increases are occurring in Government spending. Said he: "I would urge upon you a more effective control of expenditures and a determined and vigorous effort to balance the budget. Such measures will strengthen confidence everywhere in the future of the dollar...
Then the House, by an even wider margin (including Republican Floor Leader Charles Halleck and his lieutenants), passed the bill designed to strengthen the U.S. for the economic challenges of the years to come...
...woods Stradivarius used; she gets spruce and curly maple from the mountains of Czech been seasoning since World War I, and Lombardy poplar from the crates used to ship Chianti bottles from Italy. Toughest wood of all to find is the seasoned willow that Stradivarius used for blocks to strengthen the corners and ends of his violins; Mrs. Hutchins now gets it from polo balls and broken cricket bats, sent to her by friends in England...
Further explaining his notion of "moral education," Pusey said that "it is [Harvard's] hope that there will develop here generation after generation--now as in the past--of thoughtful men who through their beliefs and actions will go on to renew and strengthen true quality in the world's life...
...success of the new rules will depend entirely on the way they are enforced," Mrs. Stimpson said. "It's up to the College to strengthen the current sign-out procedures...