Word: strength
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gymnastics-more athletic than ethereal, as daring as they are precise-have become a sport ideally suited to the American character. Long dominated by Europeans, especially the Soviets, gymnastics stressed Old World considerations of grace and style as much as athletic power. Whatever gymnasts did-and the feats of strength and agility were considerable-how it was done was as important as what was done: the toes always had to be pointed...
Saudi Arabia has always considered itself the model of prudence and self-control among the 13 nations that make up the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. When one of the other members threatens the group's strength by producing too much crude oil or selling it at a discount, the Saudis are usually the first to scold. Thus Saudi Arabia has perplexed the global oil industry this summer by boosting its output by 1 million bbl. a day beyond the country's voluntary quota of 4.5 million bbl. The extra crude has aggravated the world's surplus...
Referring to a team like France, which has several First Division professionals, Shattuck said. "You get to see a group of people that really don't have any outstanding weakness... The reason they lose is that another team has an outstanding strength...
...self-defeating diffidence. The answer may lie in the other legacy Humphrey left behind: a certain sweetness, a corny, prairie-bred conviction that folks don't have to be mean and nasty to get what they want. That naiveté was his undoing but also his strength. Early in his career, the politician asserted, wide-eyed, "The proof that God exists is that all men are brothers." Hubert Horatio Humphrey never learned any different, or any better...
...production - the commedia dell'arte for the comic duo of Trinculo and Stephano, for example, and a hint of Peking opera mannerism for Ariel - but they effectively underscore the contrasts between the spirit and human worlds, making the confrontation even more pointed. This is a Tempest of clarity, strength and purpose - exactly what was lacking in the Royal Opera's Turandot. The cross-cultural irony is inescapable: the English company presenting the Italian opera had failed, but the Italians staging an English classic had made a glorious success...