Word: bolstered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Four outstanding sophomores bolster the Diplomat lineup, and Harvard coach John Lee is expecting a tight match, "This is definitely our toughest match to date." he said yesterday. "We've got to do well in the last four weights to stay in the meet...
...impossible under the conditions imposed by the Red Chinese and the Soviets and the nature of the war. The Pentagon should have tried harder to persuade its civilian commanders that both ought to narrow their goals. They could hope to prevent a conquest of South Viet Nam and bolster the South Vietnamese forces for a limited time-and that, perhaps, is all that the President and the nation should have expected to accomplish in Viet Nam. Military men have often said that they were asked to fight the Viet Nam War with one hand tied behind their back...
...next Saturday. He says he anticipated no real problem in winning and used the match to evaluate his sophomore fencers. The Crimson won without two key performers. Larry Cetrulo and Paul Viita. Cetrulo was number one saber last year and his return will greatly strengthen the weapon. Viita will bolster the epee...
...Administration has sound reason to bolster the nation's exports. In the long run, the strength of the dollar greatly depends on that effort. The U.S. trade surplus used to average $5 billion a year. This year the surplus will total less than $1 billion, mainly because imports have risen 50% over the past three years, twice as fast as exports. Much of the blame can be laid to U.S. inflation, but not all of it. Farm exports have fallen sharply, largely because Common Market countries have unloaded surplus grain, chickens and other produce abroad at subsidized prices...
...deviant behavior. Mr. Taylor's stories are shadowed by drunkards, bastardly men, spinsters, estranged wives who are dependent on their servants as their only friends, only family, only life. In almost every story a servant holds the family together. The servant presides over the rituals and amenities which bolster status, esteem, sanity-like having fingerbowls when there is grapefruit for breakfast, like having someone to keep the family supplied with "Negro jokes," or someone to fire when a mistress's personal problems become too overwhelming...