Word: strength
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus, although the Administration's big bet on the basic strength of the U.S. economy is above politics, the political risks are still awesome...
...himself neither radical nor conservative. Steinle's prime asset : as a supreme court justice he was not involved in last year's bitter seven-man G.O.P. Senate primary in which the Old Guard lost out to Ikeman and former Governor Walter Jodok Kohler, then stayed home in strength while Kohler lost the election to hard-campaigning, Fair-Dealing Bill Proxmire...
...zoist Airborne to Puerto Rico last fortnight showed what STRAC's advance guard could do. But the snag about STRAC as a whole is that it is dependent upon the Air Force's inadequate force of troop-carrier aircraft to be able to fight anywhere in any strength. Within a limited war's crucial first 36 hours, the Air Force could lift no more than one battle-ready division to the Middle East, no more than a regiment to Southeast Asia. It would take the Air Force and the Navy together several weeks to move the whole...
...determine the fate of France. Defending the Fourth Republic was testy Premier Pierre Pflimlin, armed with constitutionality and the tough internal security forces commanded by stooped, whitehaired Interior Minister Jules Moch.* On the attack were the insurgents of Algeria, armed with the bulk of France's effective military strength and the full-throated approval of the Algiers mob. Off to one side, waiting for a summons to take over, stood towering Charles de Gaulle, whose fortunes rose every time the insurgents scored a point...
Last year, the varsity tied for fourth with 12 points on the strength of a hammer win by Pete Harpel, thirds in the low hurdles and two-mile by Landau and Reider, and a fifth in the two-mile by Dyke Benjamin...