Word: strength
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Teddy Roosevelt, the table had witnessed some important business. Calvin Coolidge used it for the signing of the Kellogg-Briand Pact, which condemned war as a means of settling international disputes. The table is a favorite piece of the President's. "Solid - it gives the impression of strength," he once explained to a guest, rapping the dark wood. Dining-room chairs were placed behind the table, and the scene...
...true that we cannot enforce trust and cooperation between nations, but we can use all our strength to see that nations do not again go to war. Our religious doctrines all give us hope. So let us now lay aside war. Let us now reward all the children of Abraham who hunger for a comprehensive peace in the Middle East. Let us now enjoy the adventure of becoming fully human, neighbors, even brothers and sisters. We pray God ... that these dreams will come true. I believe they will...
...reception of The China Syndrome makes clear, America's newest nightmare concerns an apocalypse of nuclear accidents. But many of the same audiences seem blissfully unconcerned about chemical accidents, even though some compounds may retain their toxic strength longer than radioactive trash. Worse, many people are willing to live with large amounts of one of these chemicals, a compound called 2,3,7,8 tetrachlo-rodibenzo-p-dioxin, also known as dioxin. The attitude may prove suicidal. A common contaminant of several widely used herbicides, dioxin is so deadly that a few ounces could poison whole communities...
...excited expectation that the meeting with someone whose work you admire inspires. She arrived a half-hour late, coming from a dinner held in her honor and accompanied by a woman described as a dear friend whose wrist the elderly writer clasped throughout the evening, as if for strength. An adulatory hush came over the room as she began to speak in her rambling, stammering, repetitive way. After about twenty minutes of this, I broke in and asked what seems now a rather academic question. I did feel elated at having been able to get something in edgewise...
Fish is still uncertain about the singles roster, but sophomore Don Pompan has established himself as a fixture at number one. The doubles pairings, while also far from cemented, look like a growing strength for the Crimson. The third team of sophomore Bob Horne and recently-resurrected junior Greg Kirsch has played brilliantly of late, and the top duos of Pompan and Chaikovsky and Captain Kevin Shaw and Walker have developed into first-rate number two teams if unproven number one teams...