Word: strength
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Marx." And Khrushchev's cloistered view of capitalism persuaded him that he could change the ways of the outside world-a world of law and liberty and a heritage of Christian morality he never knew-if only he could convince the strong that he dealt from equal strength...
Nixon's greatest strength lies in the Midwest, where he won 54% of the sampling, against Kennedy's 46%. Only in the Democratic South did Nixon fail to poll a majority. Southerners gave Roman Catholic Kennedy a 54% to 46% edge...
...case turned into a pre-trial jury hearing to decide whether Podola had actually lost his memory and so was unfit to plead guilty or not guilty of murder. Detective Albert Chambers, 6 ft. and 230 lbs., testified that to arrest Podola, he "charged [the door] with all my strength," and crashed Podola to the floor, falling "full length on top of him." When Podola recovered consciousness, said Chambers, he had ''a peculiar trembling and shaking and twitching" in his whole body...
...strength of the Morgan contact, Clark branched out. made his first million in the '20s. In 1929 he founded his present firm, Ivor B. Clark Inc., and rode out the Depression comfortably by finding money for needy Wall Street investors to whom banks refused to lend a dime. Among his financial sources: Eccentric Millionheiress Hetty Green, who collected as much as 10% interest...
...sphere of morals it seems that certain stands retain strength after the original metaphysical foundation has dissolved, for two-thirds of the Catholics who had slipped from orthodoxy objected "because of religious beliefs" to both legalized abortion and extra-marital intercourse--a surprisingly large percentage considering that a much smaller fraction of the students polled would follow suit. An even more surprising feature of this question is that some of the staunch Catholics (five in all) failed to object to certain of the practices listed in question 41, all of which are morally objectionable in the eyes of the Church...