Word: buttressed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sexual mores, the South further entangled itself in the guilts bred by the evil of slavery. To buttress his sense of superiority, the Southerner elevated the white woman to an impossible level of "purity" and then, to satisfy his instinctual needs, he turned to the Negroes with their "physical grace and rhythm and . . . psychosexual vigor." Each time that the Southerner "found the backyard temptation irresistible, his conscience split more deeply from his acts...
Then from the White House came the first acknowledgement of trouble; a firm order that recognition of the military junta ruling Venezuela must be held up. Meanwhile, U.S. ambassadors in Latin capitals were instructed to ask advice from the governments to which they were accredited on how best to buttress democracy in the hemisphere...
Wendell Phillips of the University of California, whose African Expedition is financing Dr. Broom, described Swartkrans Man as "a million-dollar discovery, what we were dreaming about for 14 months in Africa." The discovery of Swartkrans Man should buttress the theory, not previously accepted by all paleontologists, that nature experimented, something over a million years ago, with big, lumbering men* before settling finally on the present model...
...temporary" steel rafters which were installed before the war to buttress a weak roof...
Although this meant that aid to China was at last out of the pigeonhole, it seemed too little, too late. Some grim Chinese, who compared Marshall's sum to the $500 million a month he proposed to spend to buttress Western Europe, decided that the time had come to write off the U.S. entirely. Said Chinese Vice President Sun Fo: "A drop in the bucket.. . . I've always had a hidden suspicion that American friendship was not dependable...