Word: strengthing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trying to deceive anyone or to convince anyone on the strength of one signature, but only on the grounds of what would be the best action to take to unify the Faculty," Dorfman said last night...
...eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One ever feels his twoness -an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder...
Underlined Horror. Books like this tend to be ghostwritten, but Mrs. King wrote this one herself. The resulting weaknesses are also the book's strength. If there is an overabundance of expressions of gratitude to myriad friends, there is also much affection that might have been mawkish if presented in more professional prose. The story, moreover, is full of details: The Kings' eldest daughter Yolanda explaining at school that her daddy "goes to jail to help people"; the awed Martin Luther King Sr. listening to his son preach in London's St. Paul's Cathedral...
...providing a personal context within which the events of King's public life take on a deepened drama. "If anybody had told me a couple of years ago that I would be in this position," King once explained to Coretta, "I would have avoided it with all my strength. But gradually you take some responsibility, then a little more, until finally you are not in control any more. You have to give yourself entirely." When President Kennedy was assassinated, King quietly told his wife, "This is what is going to happen to me." She recalls, "I could...
...strength of the Terriers last season was defense. as the backfield turned in six shutouts and allowed only 11 goals in 13 games. Goalie Tom Danigella returns in the net for B,U. but the Terriers must rely on sophomore fuilbacks to protect...