Word: strength
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conservatives use to defend their resistance to women leaving the home for the workplace. They argue that the bonds that develop between mother and child know no laws that humans may construct among themselves: "The forces that are at work here are not to be reduced to using the strength and power of the state to hold a woman to a contract that does violence to her own humanity the bonds of a mother to her child are a lot deeper than the 200-year-old experiment we call the United States of America and the Constitution," said...
...work at least as much a part of the great artist--that genius which is peculiar to and defines him--as the child is of the surrogate mother? I would argue that it is even more so. The moral strength of "motherhood" doesn't derive from the mere carrying of the child. The mechanical rigors of childbirth are common to all women. The spirit and personality of the parent are not imparted so much in the biological production of the child as in the nurturing and rearing...
Five different Minnesotans scooted even-strength goals past Harvard goalie John Devin in that nightmarish second period, and when it was over, so was Harvard's season...
Hesitant as I am to intrude into the battle between the sexes, pitting Cynthia V. Hooper against Craig S. Lerner ("Women's Studies," March 23 and March 16, respectively), I will nonetheless venture into this dangerous territory. I do so only reluctantly, compelled by the strength of Miss Hooper's unladylike indignation and by the boldness of her ambitious design...
Will the current furor weaken the evangelical movement, which has gained enormous impact and visibility over the past two decades? Sociologist James Davison Hunter of the University of Virginia thinks not. "It is very much a populist movement that derives its strength from the vision of reality it holds and an expansive set of institutions which sustain that vision," he observes. "The TV ministry is a small part of this. A visible part, but a small part...