Word: strengthed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...found among the very great. The super-criminals and benevolent dreamers, the movers and shakers of the 1930s and of the war years had died or stepped back toward the shadows. Stalin still had more power than any man alive, but he wielded it increasingly through others, conserved his strength and (reportedly) worked on his memoirs like any good, grey 19th Century British empire-builder. Churchill was still the world's greatest orator,* but a statesman's words, unlike a poet's, need power to give them weight; Churchill, testy and grim, was not in power. Bull...
...next two sets (6-1, 6-2), Schroeder's all-out attack made Bromwich look almost helpless, but the pace was telling on himself. He let Bromwich win the fourth set, and tire himself doing it, while he got back strength and wind. The final, fifth set Schroeder won easily. The stunned Australian crowd, after seeing its own star beaten, cheered Schroeder for five minutes...
...stick, the eyeless screen before his countenance, and the knowledge that he was not only doomed to death and suffering, but shut out forever from the touch of his fellowmen, filled the lads' bosoms with dismay; and at every step that brought him nearer, their courage and strength seemed to desert them...
...strength of the hopeful new treatments, the newly created National Advisory Council on Leprosy decided last week that it was high time for a more humane attitude toward lepers. Their recommendations (to Surgeon General Thomas Parran): 1) new diagnostic centers and clinics for treatment in the four states where leprosy is endemic; 2) segregation only as a last resort (in contagious stages); 3) pleasanter surroundings and more freedom for Carville's lepers, including a month's vacation every six months...
...army and a prosperous consultant on industrial patents, Barea observed from the inside how German interests, especially I. G. Farbenindustrie, had sunk their hooks deep into Spain's economy. Meanwhile, the parties of the Left-Socialists, Anarchists and Communists- brawled among themselves. No republican government could get enough strength to put through reforms against the opposition of the caciques (bosses). Barea does a careful portrait of this ancient Spanish type in action-the landowner, moneylender and local boss who deliberately let the countryside starve to hamstring the republic...