Word: strength
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old granddaughter, Laurel. On the other level, the struggle is between the companion, Miss Madrigal, and Mrs. St. Maugham's old, and now infirmed, butler, Mr. Pinkbell, who never appears on stage. Since the companion is at the focus of both of these quarrels, it is on the strength of the performance of Miss Madrigal that "Chalk Garden" stands or falls, and at Tufts a girl by the name of Karen Johnson is doing a fine...
Tucker explained that the Kremlin is in the process of working out a plan to reorganize the educational system. The plan is outlined in a law passed last December, entitled "On the Strength of the Connection of School and Life in the USSR." Tucker said that the word "life" refers to the life of material production...
...nuclear weapons into France unless the "nucs" were put under French control. A few days later, the F-100s began roaring off their bases at Toul, Etain and Chaumont, landed in new quarters at British and German alternate bases hard by the nuclear weapons, a combination that made NATO strength for the Berlin crisis that much solider...
...plan assumes that the U.S. will suffer the first blow in any major nuclear war. It counts on the expectation that the nation will not only survive the first onslaught but will have the military strength to launch a massive counter-strike and the morale to get the nation back on its feet. Yet, despite the urgent recommendations of the Gaither report, the Rockefeller defense report (TIME, Jan. 13, 1958) and most civil-defense experts, not a single city or state in the nation has a realistic nuclear-bomb shelter system-a system that on a national scale could save...
Meteorologist Banner Miller of the National Hurricane Center at Miami is certain that this fatal underestimation will not be repeated. Today's weathermen know that the strength of a hurricane depends on the temperature of the sea water, the temperature of the air up to 50,000 ft., the strength of inflowing winds at low levels and dozens of other factors, and that all the factors can be measured. The only problem is getting the information rapidly and accurately...