Word: strength
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said, and the deans all said, 'What's going to happen? We've been waiting now for four years, hoping that some sanity was coming back, and instead of getting better, it gets worse. When they take over, this is the real test of strength. If they do this, and hold that building, and throw out all the people who belong there, and this goes on and on, and Harvard Yard just becomes an endless battleground for the rest of the year, that's the end of the academic year--that's the end of everything. So the only...
...Julie had a great game," Bailliere said. "Her strength is driving the crease and she really took advantage of that. [Kleinfelder] told us Yale would give us openings in the crease. Julie did exactly what she was supposed to do. She played with a lot of poise...
...loss of life if no effective resistance is offered. For this reason, I felt it my duty to contribute to our defensive force in order to protect the lives of my family, friends and countrymen. Again I could be criticized here as being trite, but I think sincerity and strength of conviction are much stronger than cynicism. Timothy McCormack...
Hightower won a test of strength last week in the state senate, which passed a bill to extend the life of his agency. The acid test may come when Republican Governor Bill Clements, no Hightower fan, decides whether to sign the measure. A veto could send Hightower packing to his backyard tomato-and- okra patch. But the feisty populist is unlikely to moderate his radical position. As he has said, "There's nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos...
...nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs. The 1,362,000- strong armed forces, the fourth largest in the world (after the Soviet Union, with 5,096,000 troops; China, with 3.2 million; and the U.S., with 2,163,200), are raising four additional army divisions to boost combat strength by 80,000. In the southern state of Karnataka, a superport is developing to service submarines, surface vessels, including a planned 30,000- ton aircraft carrier, and long-range reconnaissance aircraft capable of patrolling as far away as Africa and Australia...