Word: strength
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...participating in the democratic process by reducing their clout. The city council this year will be elected by districts and not, as in previous years, at large. Similarly, in the Southwestern states. Hispanics have won scores of suits forcing changes in districts which had been gerrymandered to divide their strength. Simultaneously, Hispanic voter registration increased 44 percent from...
...final moments, Wellesley appeared to recover its strength momentarily. But a Trumbull spike gave Harvard the chance to finish the game, and Wong tipped the ball over the net to bring the evening's competition to a close...
...altar in cassock & surplice stood his old schoolmaster, Groton's Dr. Endicott ("Peabo") Peabody who had married him to Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. From his heart, from the hearts of his little band of worshippers, from the heart of a stricken nation rose a wordless appeal for divine strength to right great ills. . . . The President-elect stood up in his pew, squared back his shoulders. As he walked out of St. John's, a brief streak of sunlight shot down upon him through grey wintry clouds...
...there are three main types. All can cause paralysis, but one type causes more than the others combined. Within each type there are many different strains. The Salk vaccine is made by taking a representative strain of each type and growing it-till it reaches many times its original strength-in a broth made with snips of monkey kidney. (To keep production going, 4,000 monkeys a month are flown in from India and the Philippines.) Then the virus in each deadly brew is killed with formaldehyde. Strangely, although the virus particles now lose their power to multiply...
...billed by its youthful Manhattan promoters as "An Aquarian Exposition" of music and peace. It was that and more-much more. The festival turned out to be history's largest happening. As the moment when the special culture of U.S. youth of the '60s openly displayed its strength, it may well rank as one of the significant events...