Word: strength
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...strength of The Green Mile lies in its spiritual core. Here, Stephen King's affinity for all things supernatural and unexplainable shines through. John Coffey possesses the mysterious ability to heal wounds and illnesses with his touch; his hand starts to glow with a mystical light, and his healings are nothing short of miraculous. His touch cures Edgecomb's urinary tract infection and revives a dead Mr. Jingles, and his power is so strong that light bulbs in his proximity shatter before the sheer concentrated energy. After each healing, the harmful spirits, in the form of a black swarm...
Despite B.C.'s offensive capabilities, the Crimson's defense really coalesced over the past weekend. It gave up just two even-strength goals on the weekend and kept a high-powered Engineer offense in check...
...Crimson (5-3) beat Rhode Island 83-59 on Wednesday, but will have a significantly tougher time against the Mountaineers (4-2), who have won three straight on the strength of three double-digit games from leading scorer Kia Williams, who averages 17.5 points per game...
...when he left the Post for Look magazine, he turned to producing plainer public statements like The Problem We All Live With, a bare rectangle in which a black girl is chaperoned by federal Marshals as she tries to integrate a Southern school. Public rhetoric was never Rockwell's strength. But he brings such a hard-lit, neoclassical calm to this moment that the remnants of a tomato smashed against the wall behind her are more shocking than a pool of blood...
...first place." Concludes Clymer: "A son of privilege, he has always identified with the poor and the oppressed. The deaths and tragedies around him would have led others to withdraw. He never quits, but sails against the wind." The reader is left to wonder just what gives Kennedy the strength...