Word: strength
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fellowship with the Communists in the same way that Wallace has rationalized it. There have been signs of restlessness, however. Sooner or later the look of the Third Party's real bosses may repel the sincere non-Communists who are the backbone of the party's voting strength. The bosses may become so obvious that even the blindest Wallaceite will recognize them. Then Wallace will appear to them in the most ignoble role of all: the man who betrayed his friends...
...full 30 seconds she struggled to get the needle-sharp fangs out of her middle finger, pressing with all her strength against the cobra's locked jaws. When she had torn the snake loose and carefully returned it to its cage, she calmly instructed the photographer to apply tourniquets to her wrist and elbow told him where to find stimulants and needles. But the needles were rusty and the vials broke in the photographer's hand. "Take me to a hospital at once," she ordered. "This is serious...
...both sides entered what was bound to become a new phase of East-West relations in Europe, the crisis crystallized the strengths and weaknesses of both. The Yalta-Potsdam comedy was played out. With or without another top-level conference between Russia and the Western powers, the old agreements, long since dishonored by the Communists, would be replaced by a more realistic pattern. What that pattern would be depended on how much strength, cooperation and purpose the Western nations could generate in the next few months...
...transported could be greatly increased and that Berlin could even be supplied with coal through the winter. The operation would be fantastically expensive, but worth it, politically. The Berlin lift was a kind of 20th Century miracle play representing both the West's humanitarian purpose and its military strength. Said a high-ranking U.S. air officer last week: "A year's supply of Berlin would be cheap compared...
...become an organization, a placement bureau, a mission that gets people jobs and gives away shoes." Thurman recently approved the decision of a member not to wear his Wallace button while welcoming people to church. "We are a religious group," he insists. "It is important that we give strength to people working on interracial problems, but the interracial character of our own group is becoming the least significant part of it ... We have remained a church...