Word: strength
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...elections, for the first time in more than four decades, Palme boasted that he was leaving "a well-laid table" for his successor. In truth, Prime Minister Thorbjörn Fälldin's inheritance looks more like an empty kitchen. Palme had grossly miscalculated the timing and strength of the world economic recovery. When this finally became apparent, Fälldin compounded the original error by failing to warn of the danger and take immediate strong action...
...system during World War II. In 1947 he became military governor of the U.S. zone in Germany, where he stabilized the country's economy and helped formulate a constitution guaranteeing democratic elections. Confronted by a Russian siege of Berlin in June 1948, and ordered not to use military strength, Clay coordinated a massive daily supply shuttle by air to the blockaded city until the Soviets retreated. After retiring from the Army in 1949, he became chairman of the Continental...
William A. Lee, a labor-relations specialist in the Department of Buildings and Grounds, was named acting chief last year largely on the strength of his expertise in dealing with labor unions...
...government is that some radical lawyers pass orders, plots and even weapons between their imprisoned clients and terrorists on the outside. That concern deepened when eleven terrorists in scattered prisons ceased their hunger strikes four days before Industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer was kidnaped last September-presumably to regain strength for their expected release in exchange for Schleyer's freedom. Other radical lawyers have carried more than pamphlets or information into prison. Arndt Müller was accused of smuggling weapons in his briefcase to Baader and Jan-Carl Raspe, who used them to commit suicide after the dramatic rescue...
...juggling a career and the care of children, often without a husband. They have figured out their lives for themselves. They have style. They are grownups, and they don't conceal their ages; if their lives are tougher, they frequently possess a certain centeredness and strength that is unavailable to those much younger, who seem somehow unformed, incomplete, far less interesting-and sometimes unbelievably ignorant. Not long ago, a Radcliffe senior confessed that she did not know what the Holocaust...