Word: strengthening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russians were about ready to abandon old Spitzbart (pointed beard), who is hated for his brutal methods and slavish subservience to Moscow, and replace him with someone more palatable. Runs the argument: now that the Wall is up to prevent major population leakage, Moscow might well be prepared to strengthen its satellite by trying a softer approach with the stubborn, restive East German people. Ulbricht's party organ, Neues Deutschland, noted the rumors of a Khrushchev-Ulbricht rift by elaborately denying...
...Blue Cross Association (representing 79 plans covering 57 million people) set up a task force under Blue Cross's hard-driving new president, Walter J. McNerney, 36. Said McNerney, a specialist in medical economics fresh from the University of Michigan faculty: "We feel the Government should supplement and strengthen our existing hospital programs rather than supplant them...
...succeeding in the Congo and has failed in Goa. This is a decent average, and Lord Home should not be so quick to criticize. He should worry, as Adlai Stevenson has done, about how to strengthen the UN executive, so that there is a possibility of its acting consistently for peace...
...continued building up its nuclear and conventional forces to strengthen its military might around the world. The Army started raising its strength from eleven to a planned 16 combat divisions, got a badly needed infusion of modern equipment. Draft calls were increased, and some 156,000 reservists and National Guardsmen were called to active duty (some of them have been screaming ever since). Down to the smallest detail, Kennedy himself discussed ways in which the U.S. might combat Communist guerrillas in strategic areas of the earth. In a meeting with military leaders to decide which weapons ought to be sent...
...indeed precisely this desire of enabling the church of today to carry out this sublime office more effectively that led us to convoke the second ecumenical Vatican Council.* For it is our hope that the impressive union of the church's worldwide hierarchy will not only serve to strengthen the bonds of unity in faith, worship and government, but will also be a means of attracting the attention of countless believers in Christ and move them to come round 'the Great Shepherd of the Flock...