Word: strengthing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President or many of his Cabinet members to travel without the danger of a rowdy demonstration. Another summer of racial riots in the black ghettos seemed certain. The U.S. dollar was being brutally battered by foreign gold speculators. Not least among the factors affecting his decision was the unforeseen strength of Senators Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy in their challenge to his renomination. So low had Johnson's popularity sunk, said one Democratic official, that last-minute surveys before the Wisconsin primary gave him a humiliating 12% of the vote there...
...just beginning to combat corruption. In re cent weeks he has fired some 100 major officials, including nearly one-third of the country's 43 province chiefs and two of the four army corps commanders. He has also stepped up the draft in order to raise army strength by 135,000 men and accelerated part-time military training for university students. Though he probably will accept sooner or later, Thieu at first held off saying yes to President Johnson's invitation to come to Washington; he thus hoped to show his fellow countrymen that he is no American...
...according to Coach Bruce Munro, "if we had been at full strength, I feel we might have done much better...
AMERICAN PROFILE: HOME COUNTRY, USA (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Chet Huntley discusses the belief that the strength of the U.S. rests in its grass roots. Camera crews roam the countryside recording the lives of Americans from East Boothbay Harbor, Me., to Bozeman, Mont...
Three times nominated for Academy Awards, Steiger is the current favorite to win this year's Oscar for best male actor on the strength of his performance as the mulish redneck sheriff of In the Heat of the Night. It was a job of acting marked by a craftsman's meticulous attention to detail: the assured swagger of the small-town cop who knows he is The Law, the wobbly waddle in the sun that evokes languidity induced by oppressive heat. To achieve the effect, Steiger relied on his standard technique: total immersion. "I've never seen...