Word: strengthe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just after Garner had handed Franklin Roosevelt his 101 delegates and assured his nomination, the late Will Rogers, who had stumped for Garner, came to Timmons and growled: "I've been neutral all my life . . . and the first time I come out for a man he throws his strength to a fellow with a Harvard accent. No good can come to a Texan who does a thing like that...
Then Jenny died. Her last words were: "Karl, my strength is broken." So was his. On March 14, 1883, death came quietly to Karl Marx as he sat in his easy chair. He was buried in Highgate Cemetery under a flat stone. At the grave, Friedrich Engels said: "The greatest of living thinkers ceased to think. . . . He discovered the simple fact . . . that mankind must first of all eat and drink, have shelter and clothing, before it can pursue politics, science, religion...
...organization of which Gandhi's assassin, Nathu Ram Vinayak Godse, was a member. Some 1,200 leaders and members were arrested for questioning. The secret R.S.S.S., which had mushroomed to a membership of about 2,000,000 since the communal riots began last year, drew most of its strength from the warlike Mahratta people of western India, who have always regarded the Moslems as invading interlopers...
...pictures. The medicine man "paints" by trickling the pigments onto sand from his fist, with hairline precision; he lets the patient's family help out with the easy parts. Chanting ecstatically, the medicine man touches the pictured powers and then touches the patient, transferring a little of their strength to him. To be healed internally as well, the patient swallows a little of the painting in herb tea. Leaving a sand painting intact overnight would be at least as dangerous, the Navajos believe, as leaving an X-ray machine running in a sickroom. So before sundown each...
...eavesdropped on the excited workmen when they retired to the pubs. Soon the authorities knew that Emmet's hopes were not confined to Dublin alone, that he had been promised support from all parts of Ireland-undependable promises which his "sanguine disposition" easily built into towers of strength...