Word: strengthed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When it comes to the line, the situation is a little more cloudy. By juggling around his returning lettermen, Little has managed to piece together one pretty good forward wall, but reserve strength seems lacking here. This isn't the line that held its opponents scoreless for 15 consecutive quarters last year, but it is a good...
...feet, cheering wildly. It clapped to hot music and spirituals sung by a Negro quartet. It listened, hushed, as Paul Robeson sang Ol' Man River, and applauded the Negro baritone when he declared: "I want to share with you the spirit of triumph I feel in the strength of Henry Wallace. He has marched into the Southland and given hope to Negroes all over the land...
...slightness of the change showed the strength of Amsterdam's realization that the war had turned much of the world leftward and that the churches, if they are to spread their influence, must do more than reaffirm the prewar status quo. The forcefulness of the statement, compared to earlier ecumenical pronounce ments, showed that a new leadership was rising in the new World Council. In the top flight of that leadership is Bishop Oxnam...
...appearance of man . . . with his generalized form, and his ability to adapt himself to changing environment, brought on the scene the 'lord of creation' who was flexible enough to survive a variety of changes . . . This generalization has been both the strength and the weakness of man . . . While . . . specialized species either perished ... or stagnated in static societies . . . man rose from precariousness to precariousness . . . The point I want to make is that biological specialization can eventually lead to ... destruction or to a treadmill of repetition...
...portraits of Roosevelt are those of a hero-worshiper, and some of them are as devastating as anything his enemies ever composed. Roosevelt explaining his political strength and his policies to Lanny Budd compares himself to a man driving three horses: "One of these horses is young and wild; that is my New Deal group, backed by organized labor and its sympathizers, the intellectuals; they want to gallop all the time, and I have to put a curb-bit in that horse's mouth. The second is much older, and inclined to be mulish; that is my block...