Word: strength
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pattern setter. The pressure was now seriously coming to bear on the B.C.O.A. The mine owners, who had only reluctantly answered President Carter's initial plea for new negotiations after their deal with Miller collapsed, had feared such a shift all along. They sensed the U.M.W.'s perverse strength: since the rank and file would not necessarily follow their leader, logic dictated that the Government try to make the more organized opposing party bend toward settlement...
...Carter's strength in the South in 1976 could be his weakness in the next election: "If those [white] switchers do not ?for any reason?vote for him in 1980, it is unlikely that he will win again." In 1976, the authors argue, Southern whites set aside their conservatism to vote for liberal Carter because they felt "the idea that 'a Southerner couldn't be elected President' was an idea whose time had come ?and gone." Yet would they feel compelled to make that point again? The authors think not, citing the Kennedy experience: after Republican Catholics voted...
...first department, Harvard stands to gain. Princeton's strength is its incredible depth. The Tigers hope to put several swimmers in the finals or consolations of each event, so that even if they don't take first, they will still emerge with the most points...
Even when performed amid the Naugahyde and flash of Las Vegas, sport can serve a kind of liturgical function. It becomes a parable: those few athletes who are gifted with a certain magic become proof of the splendors that the body can achieve-the feats of grace, strength, speed, skill, stamina. But the athlete's half-life is so short; his decline and failure become a model of the mortality in everyone...
...fifth match of the afternoon, Harvard won only four of ten bouts. But the Crimson picked up enough team points on the strength of three pins to close within one point of the Elis, and send a shiver down the backs of the Yale grapplers...