Word: strengthe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...studied law and joined a Manhattan law firm. The public first heard of him in 1905. Appointed a special counsel, he investigated a scandalous gas monopoly and won a consequential cut in rates. He also uncovered a venal conspiracy between city officials and New York insurance firms. On the strength of these crusades, he was elected governor of New York over the Democratic nominee, William Randolph Hearst...
Schuman's M.R.P. and Marie's Radical Socialists needed the Socialists' votes to form a coalition government. They agreed to the election postponement and voted for it. The Communists also wanted the elections postponed because they, too, had been losing strength, and they feared that Charles de Gaulle's R.P.F. would show gains if the elections took place...
...book, Of Flight and Life (Scribner; $1.50), Lindbergh proposes a religious solution: "When we worship God and live by His spiritual values, the knowledge and infinite complexity of science are channeled by a wisdom beyond human capability . . . Then science gives us the material strength to protect our spiritual values." But Lindbergh's new religion is almost as nationalist as his old pre-Pearl Harbor politics: "For Americans, the doctrine of universal equality is a doctrine of death . . . Our survival, the future of our civilization, possibly the existence of mankind, depends on American leadership...
...Knees. Even if all Munoz' strength lay in his beloved jibaros, most Puerto Rican politicos concede that he would win. But his magic also works with some middle-class intellectuals, and with the slumdwellers of San Juan's malodorous El Fanguito (TIME...
...recent years, on the strength of all the books written about the mutiny on the Bounty, Pitcairn had found itself an island of world-wide interest. It had $130,000 in the bank, earned by selling stamps to collectors all over the world. What should be done with the money? The islanders asked Britain's High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, lanky Sir Leslie Brian Freeston. Said he: if Pitcairn Islanders would build a school, the British would promise to keep it going in perpetuity. And to show he meant it, his office placed an ad in New Zealand...