Word: strength
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Along this unusual journey he once welcomed Neville Chamberlain's attempt to win peace by accommodation. It was a rude but enduring lesson for Nitze. He became the insistent intellectual scold arguing for greater American strength. He directed policy planning at the State Department, served eight years in the Pentagon, including a term as Secretary of the Navy, then was a SALT negotiator for five years in Geneva. Today, at 72, Nitze is a large part of the firepower against SALT...
...attack on RH-827 was yet another indication of the guerrillas' growing strength and further proof that Nkomo seems determined to raise as much havoc as he can before the spring election. Late in January, Rhodesia's white minority overwhelmingly approved a referendum committing them to join 2.8 million black voters at the polls on April 20 to elect a majority-rule government that Smith hopes will gain international recognition as legitimate...
...Strength right down the middle is the key to a strong baseball team or military force or national economy. So it might be worthwhile to look at the state of business in the city that by many measures is closest, geographically and spiritually, to the middle of America: Wichita. Rising from the pool-table Kansas wheat fields, surrounded by aerospace plants and enormous grain elevators that ride the prairies like battleships, this community of 262,000 has a problem. There are not enough workers to meet its surging demand...
...unprovoked, is certainly reprehensible. It could be argued that frequent border conflicts between the two countries, Hanoi's expulsion of 180,000 ethnic Chinese and, in particular, its invasion of Cambodia and overthrow of the China-backed Pol Pot regime have forced China to do something to prove its strength and its commitment to supporting its allies...
...author from the big city of Paris. As husband and wife, they returned to the capital, where he added her to his stable of ghost writers; his pursuit of other women occupied the time he would have devoted to his books. The play describes Colette's development of the strength to desert the marriage, despite family opposition. while she abandoned her husband, she retained the literary training he gave her in place of fidelity...