Word: strengthing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stiff Party Rule. The most prevalent belief in Czechoslovakia is that the long, slow campaign of resistance since August has finally had an effect on national politics. The country's strength, say insiders, lies in an expanding axis of students, workers and intellectuals, who staged meetings, sit-ins and work stoppages to protest the Central Committee's announced intention of returning the country to stiff party rule. Not even optimists are convinced that, in the end, their pressure can reverse Russia's considerable success in crushing Dubcek's reforms. But for the time being, at least...
Forty-five East Asian Studies graduate students elected a committee on Monday to study the strength of student support for their grievances...
...Cadets have strength at the top as well. Army's number one player, George Alcorn, is just a few notches below Nayar in the intercollegiate ranking. He has been a consistent performer and promises to give Nayar a strong test in the feature match...
...ideas on black politics were apparently wrong. Some black politicians, at least, have been able to expand their power bases not only in spite of the isolation of their race, but also because of it. As the "black community" has solidified, its leaders can take its unprecedented voting strength more and more for granted...
Atkins has reason to be mindful of his political strength, of course. His seventh place finish last year left him only two slots above the cut-off point. He has to run again in 1969, without the aid of a huge liberal turn-out for White, in a more racist atmosphere than existed in '67. And he will probably face all the incumbents plus a drove of challengers including Louise Day Hicks, White's unsuccessful mayoral opponent...