Word: strength
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...strength, according to West's associates,lies in his ability to reach out to the widerpublic and individuals...
Whatever the strength of the division, therewas a general recognition that the veterans were aserious crowd...
...stylist he's always seemed sort of prematurely mature, more earnest than flashy. But that gravity is also the source of his ripening strength; at a time when characterization is in short supply at the movies, Sayles keeps finding troubled, intelligent life in venues that are at once exotic and quotidian...
Parents and schools can guard against harassment by not tolerating it. Give your daughter the strength to say no, loudly--as LaShonda Davis did. And if you have a son who is struggling to understand what is acceptable behavior toward girls, Nan Stein says, run the Mom Test on him. "If you overhear your son talking about girls in a trashy way, remind him, 'That's me you're talking about.' If he thinks it's hilarious to snap a girl's bra, ask him if he would have done it with his mother in the room...
Mainline Protestantism does not make much of martyrdom, but the more emotional evangelical variety honors it, sometimes in connection with murdered missionaries or persecuted Christians in places like China and Sudan, and sometimes to lend strength in the face of indignities suffered at the hands of American secularism. At Cassie's funeral, her pastor said she was in "the martyrs' hall of fame." She has been compared to the early female saints Perpetua and Felicity, and her interrogation by her murderer recalls Christian persecutions throughout history. But for youngsters the most important thing, explained Teen Mania attendee Heather Miller...