Word: strengthe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...united Europe cannot live without the help and strength of Germany," he said. The French and others had suggested that the Assembly defer action on Germany until next year. But, growled Churchill, "that year is too precious to lose. If lost, it might be lost forever. It might not be a year-but the year...
Economist Harold G. Moulton, president of the Brookings Institution, challenges this position in an important new book soberly titled Controlling Factors in Economic Development (397 pp.; the Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C.; $4). On the strength of 30 years of his own study and the institution's voluminous research, Moulton declares: 1) there is no known limit to the potential wealth of the world, and 2) there is no known method to assure economic stability...
Prayer for the Future. Despite its mounting troubles, the Congress Party still has three great sources of strength: the personal magnetism of Nehru, the organizational genius of Patel, and the still eloquent ghost of Mohandas K. Gandhi...
...chiefs of staff first flew to Frankfurt, where they conferred with representatives of Luxembourg (military strength: two battalions) and Italy. Then they went to London, where brief staff talks with British, Norwegian and Danish military leaders were sandwiched between a reception at Buckingham Palace and an air review by 24 U.S. Superfortresses...
...find a job for him and a place to live, so that he could put in a formal application for parole. Wrote Gara to the minister: "The days now go rather rapidly, but the weeks creep and the months seem very long . . . But God does grant me the strength sufficient unto each day, and I feel that, so far at least, I've not succumbed to the temptation of bitterness. But, believe me, it is a terrific struggle...