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Word: strength (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Throughout the game, the Crimson's defense was nearly flawless. Seven times the defense was forced to play with a man down, and once six-on-four. Each time the defense sent the Panthers away empty pawed. A big part of the defensive strength came from Bergmann, who finished with 18 saves...

Author: By Nicholas N. Branca, | Title: Laxmen Send Panthers Packing for N.Y., 8-3 | 4/18/1988 | See Source »

Sure, they were 6-0 going into the weekend. Sure, they were scoring an average of over 10 goals a game. Sure, they were blessed with team speed, terrific bench strength and the best pressure defense this side of the Los Angeles Lakers...

Author: By Alvar J. Mattel, | Title: Rolling Aquawomen Take Brown Tournament | 4/18/1988 | See Source »

...1960s, a popular adage was "Never trust anyone over 30." Today, not only do activists trust their elders, they work along side them, as student support for the Harvard Radcliffe Alumni/ac Against Apartheid attests. Student activists working in coalition with adults is an indication of the strength of moral purpose that motivates those advocating divestment, not a sign of weakness in the campus movement...

Author: By Michael J. Bonin, | Title: The Times They Are a Changin' | 4/16/1988 | See Source »

...these criticisms is that campus activists have become "professionalized" and therefore lack true dedication to their cause, like the heroic figures of the 1960s. This criticism fails to understand how grass-roots movements must develop. Leftist movements in this country--regardless of the issue--generally lack the financial strength and political contacts that their opponents possess...

Author: By Michael J. Bonin, | Title: The Times They Are a Changin' | 4/16/1988 | See Source »

...Hedda, played here by Holly Cate, is never a bore to watch. Cate portrays Hedda with proportionate coldness, but wisely refrains from histrionics. Hedda's fury isn't the tumultuous kind of a Lady Macbeth or a Medea. In her appropriately antiseptic delivery, Cate invokes the quiet strength of Ibsen's heroine...

Author: By Esther H. Won, | Title: Hedda Strong | 4/15/1988 | See Source »

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