Word: strength
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When spring practice ends April 30, Art will have exactly four months away from the drill fields. But this simply means moving indoors to the charts and the blackboard; for during the summer, Art and his staff must re-evaluate the squad's strength on the basis of spring practice and the annual academic harvest. He must also elaborate on his system to fit the schedule and the capabilities of his personnel...
...visitors to Yenan described Mao as a heavy-set man (5 ft. 8 in., 200 lbs.) with the humor, the strength and often the manner of a Chinese peasant. He frequently sat with his feet propped on the table, and in warm weather he unceremoniously stripped to the waist. Once, in Yenan in the presence of General Lin Piao, president of the Red Academy, he took off his trousers for comfort while studying a military map. He smokes incessantly and tends his own tobacco patch. In 1938, the Party Central Committee gave him a $5 monthly raise so he could...
During and shortly after World War I, his son Kimberley and his brother Innes died; and, believing that mediums could put him "in touch" with them, the bereaved Doyle turned his whole strength into spiritualism...
...scheme to spend money, but to save money. Explained the aide: "The whole point of the plan is enlightened self-interest. We don't want to go on forever handing out doles. The Marshall Plan gets them over the hump, but it will be the great, imponderable strength of our technical skills, combined with their manpower and resources that will help these countries...
...scientific books (forbidden in the orthodox cheder), and argued Zionism, socialism and anarchism with his friends. The Weizmann home was almost always in an uproar. "They've got to be fed," Chaim's mother would cry from the kitchen, "or they won't have the strength to shout...