Word: strength
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...backfield is more full of strength than ours, its men more perfect in both pass and rush, its line as strong as its record the best; then reason will the Cross should be as good...
Tyler pays delighted homage to the growing strength--both in numbers and in ability--of those who compress their thoughts into short, direct sentences that describe elliptical actions and liminal, often deeply saddening moments: in short, the Bleak School...
...morning meeting, the National Security Council decided against any drastic shift in U.S. policy. Weinberger said that efforts would be made to reduce the vulnerability of the Marines in Lebanon, perhaps by moving them to more secure positions. The White House ruled out any increase in combat strength in Lebanon but planned to send replacements for the dead and wounded. In fact, by midafternoon, Marines at Camp Lejeune, N.C., were receiving their orders to replace the men who had been killed that morning. Declared Weinberger: "Our commitment to the cause of Middle East peace still remains." A top White House...
...squandered it all for what? For a little pipsqueak of a country that was no more than a little tick in its side. It's like paying a massive moral price for a reward that is worthless. Purely from a pragmatic, realistic point of view-seeing the moral strength the United States has vis-a-vis its would enemy Russia-it can't get up in the U.N. anywhere and talk about Afghanistan or any other act of futurism by the Russians because they can get up and point at Grenada...
...boys play games in the public eye, especially games which kill 62 pilots in 32 weeks. As one astronaut candidate explains. "Whoever survives this competition is destined to become a legend in his own time. "The Right Stuff takes a humorous and often moving look not only at the strengths of legends but also at the weaknesses of these men. And the movie's strength results in part from its ability to fuse the seven men into one, a team that overlooks its individual differences and concentrates on its similarities in order to overcome a common danger. Glenn need...