Word: emboldened
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Behind sandbag barricades and rifle-toting guards, Haiti's strong-willed President Francois Duvalier lay last week in his white palace, seriously ill of a heart attack. Out of fear that the truth would embolden opposition elements to start trouble, his aides stuck to a diagnosis of "grippe," but only succeeded in starting dangerous rumors-that Duvalier was paralyzed, was already dead, or had left the country. Superstitious blacks in the Port-au-Prince slums whispered that the President's ouangas (voodoo charms) had lost their power...
...public, should it come to a showdown with Communism, "would unite as one," and moreover, if the opposite were believed by the Communists, "it would embolden our enemies and make almost inevitable the conflict...
...alarm, King Hussein fired his new government just 72 hours after it had taken office, and dissolved Parliament. But instead of mollifying the rioters, his action seemed to embolden them. The U.S. consulate in the Jordanian half of Jerusalem was attacked for a second time in a week. The American flag was hauled down from a 30-ft. pole and trampled in the streets. Then the mob swarmed on the French consulate; the consul held off the crowd with a submachine gun. At the Turkish consulate, a 14-year-old boy was killed in the garden, and a 16-year...
...implies a defense effort adjusted to an arbitrary budget, and by accepting it Ike had reversed Teddy Roosevelt's advice to speak softly and carry a big stick. "The new advice is to talk tough and carry a twig" -a policy which "would demoralize the free world, embolden the Soviet Union to new military adventures and, in the end, pull down the world into the rubble and chaos of a third world...