Word: strengthed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meeting had more lung power than political strength. The delegates, except for those from Mississippi and Alabama, were political outs and has-beens. Most bigwig Southern politicos pointedly stayed away. Even Arkansas' Governor Ben Laney, who had withdrawn as the rebels' favorite son at Philadelphia, remained aloof in his downtown hotel room, contented himself with offering advice...
...more united than it had for two years. That the West's position in Berlin was militarily untenable if the Red army attacked was no new discovery. The Russians have known for two years that they could take Berlin-and much more. What deterred them was not Western strength on the spot, but the strength they feared the West could and would mobilize...
Boasting of 100,000 followers, mostly Chinese, the rebels challenged the British to "call out all your police and troops for a trial of strength...
...soles ($800), the revolution was well worth the price as a demonstration of Bustamante's strength. A month ago Bustamante had dismissed from his cabinet the reactionary army leaders who wanted to outlaw the leftist Aprista party. Fortnight ago he announced that he meant to steer Peru on a straight-down-the-middle course. In the quick showdown forced by Llosa, the army stood behind the President. Within a few hours of the first call to revolt, all garrison commanders pledged loyalty to Bustamante. Early rumors that General Manuel Odria and other former cabinet members might join the uprising...
Almost two years ago, big, amiable Robert Harlan Van Gelder quit his job as editor of the New York Times Book Review to write his first novel. On the strength of his name, an opening chapter and an outline of what was to come, his publishers had given him an unprecedented advance of $20,000. For all of three days (a long life for that kind of gossip), it was the talk of the trade...