Word: strength
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days. I, myself, quoting my favorite author, wrote a short chapter to conclude a book that I wrote back in 1947 or '48 [Crusade in Europe, 1948], and in it I pointed out that there was going to be no peace, there was going to be no real strength among the free world, unless each was willing to examine its simple, sole, sovereign position and to see whether it could make some concessions, each to the others, that could make a legal or a law basis for settling disputes...
...give flesh to a social abstraction and on the other hand to give eloquence and stature to flesh that is at times all too solid. The author seems to ask, when and how can the sons of the men who carved a country out of the frontier with the strength of their hands adjust to the business suit and all the other impersonal appurtenances of a white collar middle class world. The leitmotif of loss of contact with the land resounds again and again until it crashes out in the final crescendo climax of the play. On one level Arthur...
...truly simple life that one of our statesmen, with his wife, enjoys, if only occasionally, in a completely primitive setting by recharging his depleted energies in such fashion. Such men's motives are to be trusted, for they are going to the source of life for their strength...
Against the Jungle. New York's police, a force almost as large as two army divisions, had made plans as thorough as an army's offensive. The department was at near peak strength; by special order no more than 12% of personnel would be on vacation at any one time. The remaining 88% turned eyes away from the schools and wintertime haunts, kept watch on the tenement streets and summer hangouts...
...Sixth Fleet, with 3,000 combat equipped Marines aboard, canceled an Istanbul visit to remain at sea in the Eastern Mediterranean; the British increased their troop strength in Cyprus to 37,000, considerably more than was needed for quelling Nicosia rioters. The Soviet press, denouncing "imperialist war plans against Lebanon," hinted at sending Russian "volunteers" to help the rebels. Amid these rumblings, Peacemaker Dag Hammarskjold flew on to Cairo this week to explain the advantages of the thin line he had drawn across the Lebanese side of Nasser's Syrian frontier...