Word: strengthening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dennis cover and your sympathetic narration of the man's activities strengthen my steadily growing belief . that the red borders on your covers should be widened...
Schlesinger spoke before the Seventh Annual Middlebury College Conference on the subject, "A Positive Program for a Democratic Society." He added that "bold programs for economic reconstruction and working incessantly to strengthen our natural allies abroad" would achieve "firm and quiet opposition to further Russian aggression...
...once before, when the body voted on March 15 to accept a committee recommendation to withdraw the measure. Only expert parliamentary maneuvering by Senator Melley saved the bill in the upper chamber. However, by delaying renewal of the discussion until this week, the House has given Toomey time to strengthen his forces, and another vote may be close. Though the "Citizens Committee" has only one known member, Miss Spencer, and is not registered officially as a lobby at the State House, it may be able to change many votes during this well-timed breather...
...preamble and article one of the Pact. But the UN is clearly unable to cope with the present crisis. Its Charter was based on continued cooperation of the Big Five. Until this cooperative spirit reappears, the UN cannot solve major international problems. It is also impossible to strengthen the UN so long as the present attitude of mutual distrust prevails. The Pact allows for the growth of the UN, saying that any military action taken under the treaty "shall be terminated when the Security Council has taken the measures necessary to restore and maintain international peace and security...
...West. Each side knows that crossing that line will bring would disaster. Antagonism, may, therefore, lose its value, and the door to cooperation through the UN can be opened. The Pact is the means to this end, and the end must never be forgotten in a struggle to strengthen the means...