Word: strength
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity held a 3-2 lead on the strength of wins by Larry Sears at second singles, Ned Weld at fourth singles, and Fred Vinton at sixth singles. On one court the fifth singles match had just begun; on the other, the first doubles. By 7:15, the Crimson had lost both doubles, trailed 4-3, and Al Goldman had just evened up his crucial match with Jim Peck at one set apiece...
...because the Justice Department backed down from its threat to prosecute the rioters. The segregationists settled down to snipe at harassed school officials who tried to abide by the federal court's order to admit nine Negroes to Central High, and keep classes going. And while, on the strength of the hate and confusion he had sown, Governor Orval Faubus rode nearer and nearer to his goal of a third term, nobody seriously tried to put Little Rock back together again...
...need you, my man! To love and be loved by-don't ever, ever doubt or forget that! My romance, hah! It's a hell of a lot more than that! That's for sure. I need to touch you, feel your tenderness and your strength. To hold you in my arms, so, so close-to cuddle you sweetly-and then to be completely smothered in your arms, and kisses, oh, so many kisses...
Irreverent Remedy. At the Eleventh Plenum of Poland's Communist United Worker's Party two months ago, tough-minded Wladyslaw Gomulka, who rose to power partially on the strength of his outspoken criticism of his predecessors' economic bungling, argued that impoverished Poland could no longer afford such inefficiency. His remedy: mass dismissal of surplus, lazy and unskilled workmen. In effect, he tacitly confessed that the price of Communist full employment is intolerably low productivity and a uniform level of poverty. A handful of hardcore Stalinists who have never reconciled themselves to Gomulka's lack of reverence...
...minority. His village stage is a stony place called Duncrana, and the leading man on that stage is both a teetotaler and an informer-terrible things to be. Unlike O'Flaherty's "Gypo," who betrays out of weakness, Roth's O'Neill acts from moral strength and does it on a tide of tea. (In fact, as Roth tells it, all Ireland is washed by a Gulf Stream of tannin. Births, deaths, love, wakes and warfare swim in the element...