Word: strengthed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stability & Peace. Though Russia had attempted to snuff out these gains by clamping down on Berlin, "the Soviet planners," said Clay, "failed to recognize our strength in the air . . . The airlift to Berlin is not a makeshift operation. It is a well organized, efficient and precisely timed operation which can provide the minimum essentials for the people of Berlin indefinitely . . . Our airmen . . . have not wavered in bad weather; nor in the face of contemptible threats...
...last week told of the seemingly irreducible deadlock between East & West at Berlin (see below). The breaking of that deadlock depended, in the long run, on which side was stronger. Beneath the headlines, the week's less spectacular news contained some highly significant indications that the balance of strength between East & West was continuing to shift. The shift was in the West's favor...
...beginning to pull out of its economic swamp; the French government had finally decided to govern, rather than let Communist sabotage wreck its recovery efforts; and Western Germany was going through an economic resurgence that held out bright hope to all of Western Europe (see FOREIGN NEWS). Western strength was expressed still another way, and that was the changing mood and mettle of Western Europe's people...
...scored in every period, mainly on the strength of ten completed passes by quarterback Agganis and his substitute Phil Brown, which went for a total of 154 yards...
...closest the Crimson ever came to the BU goalposts was the 20 yard-line, although backs Tom Ossman and Warren Wylie showed brief flashes of ground strength all afternoon. A practice injury kept Bob Ray, the big first-string fullback, on the bench...