Word: strength
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bromides? The program promised significant concessions to catch the vote of the middle-class housewife. "The voice of the consumer," it proclaimed, "must ring out with strength and emphasis." Above all, Labor rediscovered competition. In a section headed "Encouragement for Enterprise," it called for "development" of competition and the continued "fruitful partnership" between public and private industry and the state...
Stuffy McInnis' new-found hitting strength and Godin's reliable pitching could make it a long afternoon for the Bruins...
...aged would seem to be unattractive raw material for a motion picture. "Monsieur Vincent" does fail to escape the difficulties imposed upon it by the story--it has few dramatic moments and no plot; it "preaches," to a degree. But the total effect of this picture is one of strength and simplicity and unquenchable sincerity. Somehow--the reasons cannot be ticked off "one, two, three"--Viscount de la Grandiere, the producer, and Maurice Cloche, the director, have managed to overcome the threats of didacticism and dullness, and have made a film of power and grandeur...
Although the Christian Democratic Party has many members in the industrial Ruhr area, where there is a more liberal attitude, it must maintain its strength in conservative Bavaria. This agricultural state has no need or wish for possible government interference in its economy and has threatened to withdraw from any strong state that may be established. In Bavaria the Christian Democrats are joined in a weak coalition with far-right Christian Socialists; any concession at Bonn by the C.D.'s would destroy the uneasy union, and lose for them this second most populous of the eleven West German States...
...recent months the Liberals, especially the Gaitanista faction, had seemed to be losing strength. After last week's massive, disciplined demonstration, Colombia's Conservatives began to reconsider their chances in next June's elections...