Word: bolstered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...defensive backfield included halfbacks Carl Bottenfield and Paul Shafer, and safety man Roche. Later, Athans and Roche went to the halfback posts and Noonan became safety man. When Kenary worked at one of the halfback slots, Phil Bolster manned the other and Lowenstein played safety...
...said, could be blamed on the summer slump, which had decreased tax receipts by $3 billion. Expenditures had increased by $1.6 billion. Cuts in the defense budget and international aid were more than offset by $1.3 billion extra paid out for veterans' benefits, $800 million extra needed to bolster sagging farm prices. Another big item was the unexpectedly high burden of underwriting the mortgage market for veterans and rental housing projects. It had been budgeted at a modest $200 million; it was costing a whopping $1.3 billion-an increase...
...baritone fortissimo, and the final scene when he breaks up an opera by getting drunk on potions designed to calm him down before his entrance. This latter episode gets its effect by his drunken degradation--a type of humor that is not attractive. Finally there are several subplots to bolster the obvious inadequacies of the main story: Douglas is the proprietor of a failing wreckage business; his father-in-law had the same problem with his wife's singing...
...Hope. Phil Murray traveled the grimy U.S. Steel belt, trying to bolster the morale of his striking followers, vowing to stick to his demand for 10?-an-hour pensions and insurance financed solely by the industry. Federal Mediator Cyrus S. Ching spent a futile week in Washington and New York City talking with steel-industry leaders...
...defensive line, this time at left tackle, between Don Cass and Chief Bender. Art Connelly, Will Davis, and Dike Hyde filled out the right side of the line, with Phil Isenberg and John West backing up. Charlie Walsh and Shafer alternated at defensive halfback with Carl Bottenfield and Phil Bolster, with Walsh dropping back to fullback to spell Roche...