Word: strengthed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...victory at Chefoo, the Gissimo abruptly issued a cease-fire order and renewed his invitation to Chinese Communists to participate in the long-postponed meeting this week of China's National Assembly. Like his eight-point peace offer after the fall of Kalgan, it was a gesture from strength...
...built monuments of painted bones, drew "pictures" that were nothing but dancing lines and dots, made a "Bull's Head" out of a bicycle seat and handle bars. He protested the German bombing of Guernica (in the Spanish Civil War) with a massive mural whose ugliness is its strength. "What do you think an artist is?" asked Picasso. "An imbecile who has only his eyes? . . . No, painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy...
...performance of the Emperor Concerto a performance which by its slower pace and ponderous force gave the piece a grandeur it could never achieve under the bombastic glitter of a Serkin or a Schuabel. Fischer's technique was at times appalling and his mistakes glaring, but the immense force strength and delicacy such as is almost non-existent today...
...Dudley's ball game nearly all the way however, as Winthrop entered the Commuter's territory only once, on the strength of Steven's prodigious punting. In the first half, the Dudleyites, sparked by the running of "Whit" Whittemore, to the Puritan...
Promising a full strength appearance of the Whiffenpoofs to highlight its lavish Yale weekend program, the Interhouse Social Affairs Committee last night released its schedule for the November 23 weekend...