Word: strengthing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shared J.F.K.'s views to a striking extent. In a memorandum written in November 1964, eight months before his death, Stevenson warned: "The principal threat to world peace and Western security in the foreseeable future will almost certainly be Communist China." As China's nuclear-supported military strength and prestige grew, he predicted, "it will use that prestige and a disproportionate share of its resources to extend its influence and create maximum disorder in Asia and Africa...
...through their heads that the American dollar would not follow sterling. Historians may well see it as a curious case, moreover, that the very "weakening" of the dollar in conventional balance of payments terms may have been a necessary part of the process by which its underlying strength has gradually been revealed. The strength of the dollar is not to be measured by conventional tests. The moves by speculators do not reflect a real threat to the dollar. What they reflect is only a continuing Treasury policy that sets a floor to the price of gold-that $35 an ounce...
...serious world is learning that the dollar is more important than gold, and that in the present relation between the two it is gold which is the dependent variable. To put it another way, the question before the world money market today is whether the total economic strength of the United States is greater than the historic affection for gold of the greedy and the frightened. The answer to that question is not in doubt. If the U.S. dollar and gold ever fight to a finish, it is not the dollar that will be devalued...
...protection, graduate from gold, and commit ourselves against any narrowly American view of the revolution in management, we shall open the way for great constructive labors in which no man need be our enemy, and in which no one's interests need be forgotten. Because ours is the strength, ours also must be the generosity...
When B.U.'s Eddie Wright eventually got his second goal of the evening at 16:25, Harvard returned to full strength and had no trouble killing the last three and a half minutes, the final 60 seconds dying amid the music of a joyous standing ovation...