Word: embolden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shell," as Under Secretary of State Elliot Richardson put it recently. The U.S. fully realizes that it cannot effect any lasting solutions in Viet Nam and Southeast Asia without at least some cooperation from China. Also, Washington worries that a lack of contact between China and the U.S. might embolden the Russians to blackmail or attack China. In view of Moscow's superior military strength, an American show of neutrality would only benefit the Russians; yet because of the communications void between Peking and Washington, the U.S. would have no other choice, short of retaliating directly against the Soviets...
...Rhodesia's whites to move gradually to black rule. By increasingly copying South Africa's tough apartheid methods, Smith's ruling Rhodesian Front stifles most political opposition and restricts most Africans to their tribal reserves and townships. Last week's defiance of Britain will certainly embolden the right-wingers in Smith's government to press the regime to declare Rhodesia a republic and thus make final its break with Britain. Showing its complete contempt for world opinion, Rhodesia at week's end sentenced eight more Africans to death and ordered Lofty Milton to stand...
Whether Galbraith's program can be considered superb?or even modestly right?is questioned by defenders of U.S. policy. It is hard to believe, for example, that abandoning most of the countryside to the Communists?the very core of Galbraith's plan?would not embolden and stiffen them rather than give them greater reason to come to the conference table. Secure in the countryside and immune from interdiction by air, they could husband their forces and then assault the allied-held cities with far greater strength than they showed in the past two weeks. Nor is it true that...
...than a carbon-copy white. And the pride, the new Negro institutions, the black cooperatives and the black student groups are all testimonials to his new spirit of independence. They will pass as the need for them declines, and as the Negro develops the respect for himself that will embolden him to demand the same respect from all of society...
...question is whether limited legislation is any solution. In fact, the new laws merely codify what hospitals are already doing. They do embolden doctors, but in practice they may prove more restrictive-and even increase illegal abortions. So it seems in Sweden, which in 1938 enacted a law almost exactly like Colorado's. Far from being an abortion mecca (foreigners are rarely accepted), Sweden puts women through a multilayered screening that creates excruciating delays; 56% of Stockholm-area legal abortions occur after the 16th week of pregnancy. Bureaucratic paper shuffling often holds up legal operations until the 24th week...