Word: strength
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Strength was turned into grain...
...under his wing for about $15 each, instructing them in the religious procedures required of a pilgrim and arranging food and lodging for the entire trip. Life used to be grim in Jidda during the ten days of the hadj, as heat-sick pilgrims squatted in the streets gathering strength for the 46-mile trek to Mecca. But newly rich Saudi Arabia has recently built a "Pilgrim City"-a roofed compound, equipped with food shops, electricity, running water and toilets. Here pilgrims wait out a three-day quarantine before inspection by doctors...
After short, chubby Abbe Fulbert Youlou maneuvered his way into power as the new Congo Republic's first Premier last November, he felt in no position to test his strength in a popular vote. His archrival, Jacques Opangault, who barely missed getting the job himself, persistently demanded general elections, but Premier Youlou refused, using his meager majority of one vote in the Legislative Assembly to proclaim himself in control until 1962. The political squabble touched off bloody rioting that in February left more than 100 dead in Brazzaville's native quarters...
...England farms, and the colonial defenders had done little to stop the raids. In the summer of '55 Rogers' New Hampshire unit was attached to an offensive aimed at Crown Point on Lake Champlain. The British colonials had struck no effective blow, had no notion of enemy strength. Rogers volunteered for missions into the wilderness, returned with the required intelligence-and news that his party had shot up a French canoe. It was the first offensive action of a sorry campaign...
...rebels had overestimated their own toughness and underestimated the Somoza boys' strength, which included a well trained and loyal army, reliable reservists, and the neutrality of the urban and rural masses. Most Nicaraguans apparently are not interested in overthrowing President Luis, who has been liberalizing the dictatorship he inherited from his assassinated father, tough old Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza...