Word: strengthing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first experiencing the delights of learning, to scores of graduate students undergoing the painful transition from general to professional education, and to dozens of assistant professors anguished by the difficulty of resolving through intelligence alone their uncertain prospects and half-formed interests. He was a steady source of strength and insight to his peers, and all who shared his love of learning, no matter their age, were Robert McCloskey's peers...
Many will remember him most for the calm manliness in which was revealed a rare joining of openness and strength. To those who were drawn to him or drew strength from him, he seemed invulnerable. He was all too vulnerable...
After 51 hours in Viet Nam, he was airborne again. He seemed genuinely moved by his meeting with the troops. "They make tears come to your eyes," he said. "There's a strength out there. If the political leadership can equal these men, we're going to bring this war to an end on the right basis, and before long." Of the South Vietnamese, he said: "They are going to make it." Saigon, Nixon observed, was not going to become "Ho Chi Minh City...
...government is saying, in effect, that it will allow an unwritten exception to these restrictions if the U.S. formally agrees to reversion for Okinawa; his regime, Sato feels, must win control of the island in order to stay in power and keep anti-American elements from gaining strength. Rogers resisted this carrot-and-stick argument; the U.S. wants no strings on its Okinawa-based forces. Japanese Foreign Minister Kiichi Aichi called Rogers' attitude "severe...
...puts it, and impress upon them the need for health-giving exercise. Last week, having already swum the turbulent Colorado River and trotted across the Rocky Mountains, he was in Indiana, heading relentlessly eastward toward New York. "At every stop," says he, "I talk about America-about strength, courage, challenge, clean living, faith, the American dream...