Word: strengthing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gaulle in 1945: "Newsreels had familiarized me with his appearance and even with the rhythm of his language. I came to meet a man who would interrogate me. But his strength appeared, at first, in his long silences...
...right up to the basking fish and let fly with harpoons. But, ah, for the sport fisherman, armed only with rod, reel, and a passion for punishment, it is an altogether different kettle of fish. Swordfishing, wrote Zane Grey, "takes more time, patience, endurance, study, skill, nerve and strength, not to mention money, of any game known to me." And Kip Farrington. who has probably landed more big fish than any man alive, says: "I would rather take one swordfish than five black marlin, ten blue marlin, or 50 white marlin...
Dropping the Ampersand. International Telephone & Telegraph came into being in 1920 when Sosthenes Behn, a young entrepreneur born in the Virgin Islands of Danish-French ancestry (though "Sosthenes" is Greek for "of sound strength"), founded it as a New York-based holding company for several Caribbean telephone companies he had recently acquired. Behn's choice of a corporate name was an unabashed effort to trade on the reputation of the giant American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Behn was successful in creating this confusion; even today, many people think of ITT as the international division of A.T. & T. Behn received...
Beneficial Environments. Much of ITT's rapid overseas growth is coming from its traditional communications operations, a trend that should continue on the strength of the unmet foreign demand for telephone lines; even in industrialized Europe, there are only ten telephones for every 100 people v. 48 per 100 in the U.S. ITT recently installed a 5,000-line telephone exchange in Madras, India, won a contract to supply the Hong Kong Hilton with a 1,000-ex-tension automatic phone system. Another rich market opening up is in worldwide satellite communications; ITT (after A.T. & T. the largest stockholder...
...same old "black bag." In a foul tavern he encounters an alcoholic teacher on the verge of a breakdown. Though Eddie at first pegs him as a sentimental phony, their encounter grows from hostility to some understanding, and each leaves with a little more dignity and strength than he had before. A wisp of a theme, but written with a lyrical quality that makes the reader ache for Wideman's sad, inarticulate people...