Word: strengthing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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VALENTI by contrast was poker-faced throughout the performance. Like Buswell he exhibited a modicum of uneasiness in the first sonata but went on to demonstrate the tremendous tensile strength of his fingers and, at the same, time, his amazing agility. His playing was motoric but not without subtleties of phrasing and dynamics. Together with Buswell, he was at his best when the music was at its most kinetic. At times his registration was somewhat arbitrary and misconceived, such as in the third movement of the Sonata in A, where he played the basso continuo left hand on the more...
...identified as uncommitted, 30 as committed to Lyndon Johnson, and 24 as committed to McCarthy. If the Minnesotan's partisans carefully vote only for his delegates while the rest of the ballots are scattered among the 51 uncommitted and Johnson delegates, McCarthy could come away richer in convention strength, if not in popular votes...
...support over half a million men has been a herculean task. We now have six instead of one deep-water ports, eight instead of three jet-capable airfields. Air supply has been developed until I am sure it is the most efficient in history. As far as troop strength is concerned, we had to use fire-brigade tactics until late 1966, when we were strong enough to begin to apply heavy pressure on the enemy. Our capability in this regard has improved ever since. With respect to the U.S. lack of experience in guerrilla warfare, I believe our military...
...primitive man, nature was so harsh and powerful that he deeply respected and even worshiped it. He did the environment very little damage. But technological man, master of the atom and soon the moon, is so aware of his strength that he is unaware of his weakness-the fact that his pressure on nature may provoke revenge. Although sensational cries of impending doom have overstated the case, modern man has reached the stage where he must recognize that real dangers exist. Indeed, many scholars of the biosphere are now seriously concerned that human pollution may trigger some ecological disaster...
...year's production of young salmon in the Miramichi River. In this process, rain washes the DDT off the ground and into the plankton of lakes and streams. Fish eat the DDT-tainted plankton; the pesticide becomes concentrated in their bodies, and the original dose ultimately reaches multifold strength in fish-eating birds, which then often die or stop reproducing. DDT is almost certainly to blame for the alarming decrease in New England's once flourishing peregrine falcons, northern red-shouldered hawks and black-crowned night herons...