Word: strength
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With her last strength she turns to look at a photograph of her daughter. Smiling peacefully, she dies. The funeral takes place in a Hollywood reconstruction of the little old neighborhood Baptist church -an edifice that looks suspiciously like Westminster Abbey on Coronation...
Dredging the killers' pasts, Dr. Satten and his colleagues discovered that all had histories of being bad actors-getting into fist fights that would have ended fatally if others had not intervened, etc. At these times they displayed superhuman strength; it took seven men to restrain one who fought like this. Yet all were preoccupied with fears of being, or being considered, "sissies...
...flow of world trade. We must do this without prejudice to our national security and without inflicting undue hardship on our local producers. Especially among the less-developed countries we must use every available means to assure that these people not only add to the free world's strength, but eventually become valued participants as both sellers and buyers in the markets of world trade...
...lives in California, but not even painful arthritis can stop her pen. She has several books going, and there is nothing in this new one to suggest that Iowa will ever leave her blood. Wooden in plot and undistinguished in writing, The John Wood Case finds its strength in an evocation of the kind of life that the nation may never know again, a society in which the Bible was a fact of life, in which an austere Sunday dinner was eaten in the presence of a blackboard which bore "discussion themes" for the children's conversation-"Honor," "Temperance...
...child's life. Awake, Serioja tags after older boys to the forest for a piratical, burnt-finger feast of baked potatoes and onions. Asleep, he is sprawled in his bed with an impish mop of blond hair and slightly open mouth ("He's saving up strength to go on living...