Word: strength
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reacting to this show of strength, the Communist parties in one country-after another...
...Liberals had no idea it would be so easy. They were running under an untried leader, Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent, who took over when the veteran Mackenzie King retired last year. The opposition Tory party had received vigorous new leadership from George Drew. Drew's strength in Ontario, where he had been three-time premier, and his alliance with Quebec Premier Maurice Duplessis threatened the Liberals' hold on the two biggest provinces...
Elsewhere in Canada, leading newspapers judged the news on its merits, took sides only in their editorial columns. A survey made by the Ottawa Citizen near the end of the campaign showed that the circulation strength of the English-language papers backing the Liberals was close to 1,000,000, the Tories had about 800,000. Not a single daily editorially supported either the Socialist CCF, the Social Crediters or the Communists...
...army support. Llovera Páez, No. 3 man, has been an uncertain balance of power-but not a power in himself. In the scramble for sides, several hundred officers have been quietly jailed. The strategy of A.D. leaders is to keep building up strength until army strife gives them a wide-open chance to take over the government...
...Democrats got an unexpected chance to increase their strength in the Senate with the resignation of G.O.P...