Word: strengthed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Warum?" echoed Josef. "Because we just don't have the strength we used to have-we don't get enough...
...succeed himself, but for the most part he has allowed Republicans to fill in the gaps so that no rival strong-man can appear in the majority party. The recent judgment against him by the Federal courts has not dampened the ardor of his adherents or his strength at the polls. When Curley returned from the courts, he was hailed as a hero and the man of the people by Bostonians. One of the first functions he addressed was a dinner in honor of a judge, sponsored by the Archbishop and attended by the Governor. He had just finished paying...
Attacks on James Michael Curley, Lyons has found out in the past week, are taken as a personal affront by the Irish Catholie nucleus of his strength. The cold welcome they received on arrival in Boston from the Emerald Isle has knit them into a tight political and sociological unit. Reformers are dismayed to find that this mass of voters feels its security rises and falls with the fortunes of its champion...
...George Marshall) was asked whether a firm stand against Russia might provoke renewed charges of "Western aggressive designs." He replied: "It won't change a damned thing. They are saying that anyhow. But it would help us to make people understand that we have to gather all our strength and resources for whatever is in store for us. Otherwise the Russians will continue to thrive on division. There is no country in the world where they have not attempted to exploit for their own benefit any political or economic confusion...
Photographs of Edouard's paintings which reached the U.S. last week had a child's freshness, and also a strength that was not at all boyish. Edouard, painting in oil, spread the pigment in broad, thick strokes that gave a sense of third dimension. For subject matter he used what appealed to his wide eyes: lobsters, a landscape framed in the window, flowers, a teapot, and, lately, his mother...