Word: strength
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...campaigning, many a Republican was listening to the impromptu, Lincoln-quoting speeches of Democrat Lausche, who had whipped the whole state machine to win the nomination, now was playing a lone hand with little mention of the rest of his ticket. His chances on Election day depended on the strength of an increasingly common curbstone comment: "I vote Republican but I'm going to cut over for Lausche...
...many as 140 electoral votes. This was grossly exaggerated and he knew it. By the best expert reckoning, he would not get North Carolina, which was cool to all the candidates and coolest to a third-party candidate. He would not get Arkansas, although he might have enough strength there to spoil an outside chance for Dewey. He would not win Florida, Kentucky or Virginia, but he might get just enough there to give those states to Dewey. He was a fair bet to win Georgia and Louisiana, a very good bet to win Alabama, and a sure thing...
...lodge in the little sacs at the ends of the air tubes in his lungs. The irritation forms scar tissue, whose stiffness keeps the sacs from collapsing, as they normally do, to expel air from the lungs. Breathing becomes harder & harder until the miner has to use all his strength merely to keep his blood oxygenated. Bacterial infections, including tuberculosis, often add to his misery...
...troops overseas, trying to define what they are fighting for: the founders of the nation had had a vision-"unity and common understanding there had been ... but the mockers came. And the deniers were heard. And vision and hope faded . . . yet there always arose enough of reserves of strength, balances of sanity, portions of wisdom, to carry the nation through to a fresh start...
Very little is known at the present moment of the strength or style of play of Leicester...