Word: strength
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Because the new composite materials can be formed into almost any shape, are extremely strong and durable, and weigh far less than metals of comparable strength, a ready market was available when they first appeared in the 1960s. The aircraft industry began using new composites for helicopter blades, turbojet fans and many other components-first plastics containing boron fibers. Then manufacturers began turning to fibers made of carbon or graphite (another form of carbon), which were less expensive and more versatile than the boron variety...
Gaetan: You have suggested several times that the great voices of the dissident authors of Communist countries have taken us out of our torpor. Do you think that the spiritual strength of their testimony can at least retard the expansion of the Soviet system? ...Are you optimistic about the future of the spirit of freedom...
...mischievous lad in The Round Dance of Krishna, a poem by Nanddas written in the 16th century and based on Sanskrit texts. Krishna is chased along the banks of the Jumnu River by 160 women and with an affected reluctance allows them to catch him. While declaring the strength of love, he multiplies himself and makes love to the 160 women simultaneously...
Witcover ends by expressing high hopes for the Carter presidency. "Perhaps he did believe, as he so often said, that he drew his strength from an intimate contact with the American people, and did not want to lose that contact," Witcover writes...
Perhaps only someone who has been raised in Europe can understand the psychological impact of the dollar's fall. People in foreign countries often equate a country's political might and will with the strength of its money. Every time the dollar declines, concern rises abroad about America's power and capacity for leadership, and worries grow about the future of the West's free economies. It troubles Triffin that Washington's policymakers, many of them his friends and former students, do not seem to recognize these dangers. Their dollar-defending moves have been weak...