Word: strengthing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...They're the toughest team we'll face all season." Lee said, "but I think we can give them a pretty tough battle. If we can match their strength in the lower weights, we should be all right," he added...
Harvard's light-weight wrestlers, who overcame Columbia's strength in the lower weight classes in last Saturday's 20-14 victory in New York, will face Springfield's toughest trio in the 130, 152, and 160-pound matches...
Only Elizabeth had dared to tell her greatest fear. The others remained in silence--a silence, for the boy, that was funny, schizophrenic, and absurd. There he sat, feeling the warm sun pouring through the windows and bathing his body, feeling the strength of the land and the mountains that surrounded them all, feeling his own strength--and yet unable to escape the strange, gnawing tension that was building in this group where people farted back and forth...
Harvard had padded its victory margin enough in the early matches to withstand this loss, however. Bruce Goodman (130), Paul Catinella (137), and Pat Coleman (145) decimated Columbia's predicted strength in the lower weights, denying the Lions any real chance for victory. Coleman put in the best performance of the meet defeating Columbia's highly favored captain...
...Golaud says, "We cannot see the other side of fate nor the sins of our own." Maeterlinck portrays these largely lifeless souls consumed by irresistible fate with his personal idiom of bare symbolism and rhythm, taking us to the edge of enervation as we begin to feel our own strength and moral consciousness become fluid, then dissolute, and finally desiccated...