Word: strength
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Skin Of Our Teeth dares to contemplate how human beings watch the good times come and go and still have the strength to get up and do it again and again--ad nauseum. It seems even more relevent to the Eighties, when overexposure is the great social malady and the cycles are more meteoric, than it does to relatively staid World...
...failure so far to make a final decision on Watson was based primarily on the strength of the ad hoc committee's objections, department members...
...piece is guaranteed to knock a couple years off any poor pup's life. And "The Bells," especially, is a terrific way to round off your Poeportion. Find yourself getting sleepy? Little weak? Sorta drowsy? Recite "The Bells" aloud into a tape deck, pop your recording into an industrial strength ghetto blaster, and let 'er rrrrrip, full volume, for dozing neighbors. Run-DMC's got nothin' on Poe... though they might make a mean team: "The TIN-too-NAB-yoo-LAY-shun of duh BELLS BELLS BELLS BELLS BELLS BELLS BELLS! HUNH...
...overwhelming strength of South Africa's armed forces and police is the most daunting problem facing the A.N.C., but not the only one. The organization's top leadership is mainly in its 60s, and even the younger leaders, none under 40, have spent years away from South Africa. Moreover, the A.N.C. spans a wide ideological chasm and is held together by little more than its opposition to apartheid...
...moment, however, the A.N.C.'s principal challenge is how to avoid squandering its new political strength in South Africa and its heightened prestige abroad. On one hand, it must keep up pressure on the South African government if it is to retain its credibility and its following. On the other, even some A.N.C. leaders admit that a resort to more and more violence runs the very real risk of losing support, moral and otherwise, from the West and from whites in South Africa...