Word: strengthed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gradual approach, however discouraging and unproductive it may appear at times, is the approach that in the long run will yield results. Prophets of doom who insist that the only salvation of the world lies in something so fanciful as immediate world government, are detracting from the potential strength of the drive for peace and security by diverting attention from more productive channels...
...play ball would mean that every A.F.L. local might have to forfeit its right to go to the NLRB for help in disputes with employers. The Great Man's answer shocked some of his listeners: it was a heresy to the doctrine that in union there is strength. Roared Lewis: "The weak must fall...
Last week, Egypt's demand that Britain evacuate the Nile Valley was still pending in U.N.'s Security Council. But on the strength of early speeches, super-nationalist Egyptians thought that their chief support would come from Syria's El Khoury and Russia's Gromyko...
Peale's economy consisted in devoting all his limited strength to the narrowest possible problems. His masterpiece, After the Bath, painted two years before he died in 1825, is a bath towel hanging on a line...
...delighted a small circle of Christian intellectuals. His first novel, War in Heaven, told of a cops-&-robbers chase through modern England which followed when somebody turned up with the Holy Grail. The Williams books inspired Lewis to write a trilogy (Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength) dealing with the forces of Good and Evil at war on the planets of the solar system. One element common to all these stories: the villain of the piece is always a scientist...