Word: strengthed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cause of De Gasperi's setback was of interest to France, Holland and all other countries where Communist voting strength is far from a majority but where Communist influence over labor unions gives the party a practical veto (by strike) over Government action. This is what happened in Italy...
Italian Communists mustered an 18.9% popular vote at the last elections, have only 104 of 556 seats in the Assembly. Their strength lies in the fact that (in alliance with Pietro Nenni's Socialist Party) they control Italy's federation of trade unions, the Confederazione Generale del Lavoro. The Confederazione's Communist Secretary-General Giuseppe di Vittorio, a wiry, steel-jawed veteran of Spain's International Brigade, wields the vast strike power of the Confederazione's six million workers...
...Bitter Strength. Last week, TIME Correspondent Frederick Gruin cabled from Hankow an account of this dogged engineering miracle...
...modern medical leaders. The Japanese looted it, and after V-J day it served as headquarters for General George Marshall's abortive peace mission. Last week the college had an electrifying rebirth: the Rockefeller Foundation gave $10 million to restore and reopen it at better than prewar strength...
...spring of 1939 fell with an epic quality of warm air and light-headedness and sap swimming and voluptuous dreaming. The Samsonic day lost its locks to the beguiling Deliahlike night. A dark down hued her epidermis, but the male day, with its redheaded brilliance and reeking strength, was subdued by her, and her charms held the insects chirming...