Word: strengthing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exhaustive inquiries into the status of the conflict yet compiled offers considerable evidence that the weight of U.S. power, 21 years after the big build-up began, is beginning to make itself felt. Within the next 18 months or so, White House officials maintain, the increasing impact of that strength may bring the enemy to the point where he could simply be unable to continue fighting...
...decline in the ratio of U.S. planes lost to sorties flown. Further, there has been a drop in the number of bomb loads that had to be jettisoned by U.S. flyers in order to combat pursuing MIGs, now considerably less in evidence. > In the South, Viet Cong strength is dropping. Recruitment, once thought to be adding 7,000 men per month to guerrilla ranks, is now estimated to be running at only 3,500. One result has been a decline in terrorist incidents from 2,700 to 1,700 a month. While estimates of either side's effective control...
...Conservative leader, Stanfield will face a tough public relations job in reselling a party long identified with Diefenbaker and his rogue-elephant ways. Privately indecisive, moody and often querulous, Diefenbaker won office in 1957 mainly on the strength of his flamboyant public charm. Partly because of his uncertain leadership -but also because of forces he could not possibly control - Canada's economy weakened and its politics became Balkanized, with East turning against West, French-speaking Quebec against English Canada, and many Canadians against the U.S. After the Conservative defeat in 1963, Diefenbaker proved no more adept as opposition leader...
...George Lincoln Rockwell [Sept. 1] was not a common hatemonger or backwoods bigot. He was the embodiment of forensic eloquence and razor-sharp intelligence, both of which had been honed to a hair-thin cutting edge. His physical stature emitted strength as well as fear. The real tragedy of Commander Rockwell's demise is that such quality and potential leadership were befouled by a twisted alignment with a vociferous band of homicidal psychopaths and miscellaneous social rejects. It is my sincere conviction that if this man had not permitted himself to become encased in the morass that...
...Said another: "Reality-deep, significant reality-is the characteristic of this book." Nothing that deeply touched Charlotte -the terrible boarding school where her sisters died, her woes as a governess, the tests of love-is absent from Jane Eyre. If Charlotte's flaw was excessive romanticism, her strength was the ardor with which she recorded her bitter experiences...