Word: strength
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...They need to shoot well in order to be successful," Roby said. "Their shooting is their strength, and we managed to take that away from them for about 35 minutes...
...fact, another version of Geneva was now being heard. After listening to a recent Saturday radio talk by Reagan, Bill Moyers said on CBS, "Five years ago, he said we needed to spend a trillion dollars to negotiate with Moscow from strength. Having spent it, he called on Saturday for spending more, to convince the Soviets that we really mean it. So, from a distance, this summit begins to appear a molehill." A flashy judgment, but premature to say the least. So skillfully did Reagan put his own version across, over the heads of the press, that the world...
Maimonides conceived his Mishneh Torah as a single unifying law code for Judaism. Although it never became that, his work substantially affected every later development in Jewish scholarship. By many accounts, Maimonides' legal compendium provided a strength that enabled Judaism to avoid factionalism during the Muslim and Christian persecutions of the Middle Ages. The Guide of the Perplexed influenced the metaphysical speculations of Thomas Aquinas and other Christian scholastics while being largely ignored by medieval Judaism. But for modern Jews, says Biblical Scholar Nahum Sarna of Brandeis University, Maimonides provides "the model of a person who is able to accept...
...other hand, some painters emerge with a strength rarely acknowledged in England or America. Lovis Corinth's Ecce Homo, 1925, was painted in the last year of his life, as he was fighting semiparalysis from a stroke; yet the blunt, stabbing paint marks and the drawing that break from high academic certitude into the quavers of a loaded brush--not to mention the conception of Christ's humiliation before the Jews in contemporary dress, with a German officer as Roman centurion--are grittily eloquent...
Paced by freshman sensation Todd Lichti who pumped in 20 points, the visitors--fresh off a 129-108 bom-bardment of Ivy power Yale Saturday--took a commanding lead early on the strength of 19-for-28 shooting from the field in the first half...