Word: strengthe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Swift, in Gulliver's Travels, wrote of the unpleasantly human Yahoos: "It is observed that the red-haired of both sexes are more libidinous and mischievous than the rest, whom they much exceed in strength and activity...
Opponents' weaknesses don't interest him. For one thing, "good players seldom have a real weakness," says Big Jake, who concentrates on putting his own best foot forward: "I always play my own strength, which is to the far right corner." This is the kind of positiveness that has made him a champion...
...reverse way, the price inflation also makes the picture look even rosier. By prompting the postponement of hundreds of building programs until costs go down, it disguises the real-and much greater-size of the nation's active potential to expand. It also testifies to the strength of the confidence on which present expansion is based: industrialists are pushing $1,000,000 projects with no less eagerness than when they originally planned them as $800,000 projects...
...easiest way out of understanding "Nevsky" is to laugh at it and it is true that some very funny cracks go around the Old South when the crowd there is small. However, a somewhat new experience can be had by giving oneself up to the movie's naive strength. Nevsky is a superhuman hero, completely shove the bourgeois jealousies and physical frailties of mere man, and so is, and should be, repugnant to American audiences. Consequently, the picture cannot be taken seriously or realistically, but as a work of art it is simple, strong, and beautifully organized...
...What I try to express in my dancing is the culture of the Negro people. ... I am not preaching a 'back to Africa' movement. I am simply trying to show the Negro his African heritage and make him see that his culture had a dignity and strength and cleanliness. . . . I don't know yet what I have to say about my own life or place in my own land. But some day I hope to be able to say, 'This is my expression, this is what I have...