Word: strength
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proud announcement: the big bird had flown successfully over a test course of several hundred miles. Reports had it that the missile, the seventh Atlas to be fired and the third to complete its programed course, was preset to swerve sharply after burnout in a test of structural strength. Apparently it scored...
Just as the Administration feared, the strength-through-propaganda set began acknowledging a major U.S. defeat. "Russia's announcement," said the Washington Post and Times Herald, "places the U.S. in an extremely ugly position before world opinion." "Like Carmen Basilic," said the New York Times's James Reston, "the U.S. has taken a terrible beating.'' The St. Louis Post-Dispatch talked of "an unnecessary loss of initiative in peace negotiations." Democrat Adlai Stevenson, who had unavailingly proposed in his 1956 campaign that the U.S. suspend its own nuclear tests unilaterally, feared that the U.S.S.R...
...harsh antistrike measures were announced, Rebel Faustino Perez, Castro's underground chief in Havana, rechecked his strength. The strike call, widely predicted for last week, did not come. "Wouldn't you think a long time?" asked one Cuban worker. "Batista's men will be shooting to kill." Habaneros hoarded food, staged a jittery run on the banks...
...four rounds, it was the younger Basilio who first showed signs of wear. His strength was ebbing; in close, Robby tied him up with ease. When Basilio stood off and tried to box, stinging jabs thrust him off balance. Then a vicious uppercut landed flush on his left eye. Within seconds it swelled shut. Basilio was lost behind that ugly, blue-black eight ball for the rest of the fight...
...seems not to have -to make the story tragic. Such men as Leopold lead a strange existence-condemned to life, but forbidden to live it. The main part of the book is concerned with details of prison existence-often, perhaps, most interesting to students of penology and the strength-through-pain principle behind it. There is the round of workshops, prison libraries, bouts in "solitary," a pet bird named Bum, a kindly chaplain...