Word: strengthe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...rest of the lineup is at full strength, except for the continued absence of Jim Kenary, who is on his feet again after his appendectomy but not yet ready for competition. Lennie Lunder, Chip Gannon, and John Caulfield will be is the outfield, while the regular quartet of Coulsen, Huntington, Mannino (now recovered from his leg injury) and Captain Coppinger will play the infield...
...that they would work together to sidetrack the Stassen bandwagon. But Stassenites thought they had spotted at least a willingness of the two groups to work together. They pointed to Omaha, where Senator Hugh Butler's machine had been expected to deliver strongly for Taft. Instead, when Stassen strength and Taft weakness became evident, it delivered for Dewey. The final Omaha results: Dewey, 12,500; Stassen, 9,000; Taft...
...good man but he can't be nominated," hurried to take a second look. They also looked hard and long in the direction of Michigan's Senator Arthur Vandenberg, whom Stassen never failed to praise and who might be the ultimate beneficiary of the Stassen strength...
...been crushed. The erratic weather had not kept voters from the polls; the turnout throughout the nation approached 90%. The threat of civil war, which had hovered over the polls despite the peaceful progress of the balloting, diminished considerably as dispatch after dispatch told of imposing anti-Communist strength-even in the industrial north, in Italy's reddest citadels...
...abolition of the death sentence, now apologetically opposed it. "The time is not ripe," he said, "for the undertaking of this particular reform." He was thinking of Britain's soaring postwar wave of armed robberies and assaults, and of his shriveled police force, 14,000 men under authorized strength. Murders had increased from 97 in 1938 to 138 in 1946, crimes of felonious and malicious wounding from...