Word: strength
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While Ezen Okoye's pulled thigh was among the first serious injuries for the male thinelads, the women have yet to compete at full strength. It showed on Saturday, as they limped to a second place finish behind Dartmouth...
Once the Cuban missile crisis developed, in October 1962, Khrushchev had only two options: nuclear war, for which the U.S. was much better prepared; or a war limited to the area, also advantageous to the U.S. Given the American geographical position and strength in the area, the Soviets would find it costly to penetrate the blockade imposed by Kennedy or defend their ships. Vladimir Buzykin, head of the Latin American Department of the Foreign Ministry, told me that there was no contingency plan in the event the Cuban operation failed. By establishing the quarantine, Kennedy had presented Khrushchev with...
...after the Cuban missile crisis, Khrushchev's view of Kennedy had changed. He perceived Kennedy as the one who had accelerated improvement of relations and as a man of strength and determination, the one thing the Kremlin understands and respects...
Unlike Khrushchev, Brezhnev seemed to have no ideas of his own to contribute. He seemed to dramatize the truth of another joke making the rounds: "There can be no personality cult where there is no personality." Brezhnev was certainly no visionary, or even an intellectual. His strength was ^ that he was a man of unusual organizational ability. He also had a gift for compromise and was adept at maintaining a fine balance among different--even opposing--forces. He was an uninspiring leader whose illusion of strong and steady helmsmanship was mainly a scaffolding built by his subordinates...
...each other's measure. The Premier, Zamyatin said, had concluded that Kennedy was a mere "boy," who would be vulnerable to pressure. "At present," he continued, "Nikita Sergeyevich is thinking about what we can do in our interest and at the same time subject Kennedy to a test of strength...