Word: bolstered
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Besides, Adolf Hitler might feel obliged to go to Italy's aid. If necessary, Germany might even occupy Italy. But Germany might bolster Italy by less drastic means, by lending planes to fight the Greeks, or attacking Gibraltar through Spain, Greece through Yugoslavia...
Many parents kept their children away, some for safety's sake. But teachers told of young boys put to work hawking firewood to bolster family earnings, of girls taught to beg money on street corners. Some children simply ran wild...
...would be broken (TIME, Nov. 25), the Greeks continued pressing, working with geography instead of against it. Frantically, the Italians called on their Air Force to strafe and disperse the attackers, and for a day or two there was carnage around Corizza. Then the R. A. F. arrived to bolster the gallant but rickety Greek Air Force. In a few hours, Spitfires and Hurricanes smacked down so many Italians that toward the end of the battle not a Fascist wing dared come across that...
...economic disaster and fascism at home the only alternative to whole-hog intervention? It is, if we attempt to struggle on as we have done, trying to bolster up a capitalistic system which is running down. But there is another alternative. Boldly and fearlessly we can grapple with the problem of giving Americans--all Americans--jobs and an adequate living standard. This does not mean half-baked public spending programs sabotaged by "lack of confidence." It means taking the vast productive machinery of this country out of the hands of the Girdlers and Fords, and putting it to work...
...five and a half hours. Same afternoon he was in San Jose, 24 hours earlier than if he had taken Pan Am's roundabout route from Brownsville, Tex. After delivering the papers to various Central American politicos, Yerex stayed to hobnob with Central American cronies, try to bolster TACA prestige...