Word: strength
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After the October harvest, reports TIME'S Doug Brew, elite growers are invited to the annual Doper's Fair in Oregon's Josephine County. They bring along prime crop samples and judge each other, by secret ballot, for taste, fragrance and strength...
What crowds wait to see is one of the smoothest righthanded swings in recent baseball memory. With his bat held letter high and his head arched over a cocked shoulder, Rice explodes with a compact swing. Says he: "My strength comes from my wrists and legs. But then I bring my left shoulder back so that, all my momentum jumps out to the ball. It's like a rattlesnake ?he coils and then he springs out." Rice springs eternal: his force is lethal to pitchers, who admit that the rattlesnake swing is the most formidable in the big leagues...
Finally, Harvard students should recognize their strength on this issue. More than half of all undergraduates marched together on the night of April 27, united in their opposition to a decision they find repugnant and inhumane. In the future, however, the organization spearheading the movement against Harvard's South African investments should be closer in concept to a single body. For all of the protests of the past months to have full impact, the movement must continue to grow. This requires unswerving attention to a single goal: Harvard, and U.S. dollars, out of South Africa...
Today, the Foreign Legion has a total strength of 8,000 men. It is an elite strike force whose members have been trained for counterterror and commando-type operations. The Second Parachute Regiment, for example, which recaptured Kolwezi, is expert in night combat, alpine warfare, urban cleanup operations, amphibious landings, demolition and sabotage. The average age of recruits: 22. Virtually all the legion's officers are French. Technically, French nationals are forbidden to enlist in the legion, but many do, pretending to be Belgians, Swiss or Canadians. Although the new legion tries hard to exclude professional thugs and officially...
...thundered: "The strongest chains binding the prisoners were their own universal submission and total surrender to their situation as slaves." But writing from Vermont, where he now lives, Solzhenitsyn prefaces the English translation of Gulag III by saying: "To those readers who have found the moral strength to overcome the darkness and suffering of the first two volumes, the third volume will disclose a space ol freedom and struggle...