Word: strength
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Competing at nothing like full strength, the Crimson fell to the Eli, 80-56, and saw its outdoor-season-long winning streak come...
Saturday was the first time the women's distance corps competed at full strength all year. The return of standouts Kristin Perini, Jenny Stricker and Kate Wiley helped the Crimson avenge its loss to the Big Green during the indoor campaign...
Duarte has confidence aplenty: the question is whether he can dampen El Salvador's passions or, instead, will further inflame them. One concern: too much flaunting by the President of his new strength might lead to an upsurge in death-squad activity by right-wing extremists. Last week the President took pains to show that his aim will be to encourage moderation. Said he: "We're going to build a government of tolerance, not a sectarian government." Most of his countrymen seem to agree with that...
...question that cannot be suppressed much longer. Americans have a deep ambiguity toward military power: they like to feel strong, but often shy away from actually using that strength. There is a growing recognition, however, that shunning all battles less easily winnable than Grenada would mean abandoning America's role as a world power, and that, in turn, is no way to assure the nation's survival as a free society. Americans, observes Secretary of State Shultz, "will always be reluctant to use force. It is the mark of our decency." But, he adds, "a great power cannot free itself...
...spent discussing the unrepentant old radical; this obituary captures him in three sentences: "He never learned to swim . . . He would immerse his body in the alien element but declined or perhaps feared to move with it. His resistance to swimming with the tide, his mistrust of currents, were his strength...