Word: strength
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nominate Charles de Gaulle-for his dignity, honesty, strength and purpose, qualities not particularly evident among his compatriots during the last decade...
...combination of reasons, mainly the strength of the league, it would be unjust to blithely predict that the Crimson will breeze to another second place in their perennial position behind Yale. The prospects portend a tough, but hopeful, season in the I.A.B...
...Washington, foreign-policy planners feel compelled to level their sights somewhat below the ideals, and to assess the practical consequences of U.S. support for Greece over Cyprus. Turkey and Great Britain are more important allies than Greece; and we need all the strength we can get in the current "cold war." Too bad about the ideals, they might say, but really, we just can't do better than try to stay neutral--given the circumstances, you understand...
...companies' chief argument was that a merger would actually increase competition. By combining Youngstown's Midwestern plants with Bethlehem's strength on the coasts, the companies said, they could better compete with U.S. Steel, which has about a third of the market. In its merger proposal, Bethlehem said it was ready to build new capacity in the Midwest, which Youngstown alone could not afford...
...Cozzens, O'Hara seems to agree that the assets and liabilities all but cancel out, leaving a chilling desolation of spirit in which futility is challenged only by fatalism. Of Alfred Eaton, as of Cozzens' Arthur Winner, it can be said that he achieves a kind of strength through joylessness except that with O'Hara's Eaton the licked wounds never quite heal...