Word: strengthing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sieve even at full strength, the Bruin defense will have to face the Crimson without the services of defensive tackle Pete Zwarg, who sprained an ankle and Achilles' tendon against...
...liberal than retiring Republican Bourke Hickenlooper. Missouri's Thomas Eagleton will also be more liberal?and more useful?than Edward Long, whom Eagleton defeated in the primary election. And some of the new Republican Senators, notably Maryland's Charles McCurdy Mathias Ir. and Pennsylvania's Richard Schweiker, will add strength to the growing group of G.O.P. progressives...
Nettlesome Critic. Instead of investigating its prisons, the government investigated Gandar's sources. One by one, they were convicted of making false statements, on the strength of testimony from a parade of government witnesses -despite a presiding magistrate's suspicions that the witnesses were painting "too rosy a picture" of prison life. Strachan was sent back to jail and served 18 months. With the Mail's informants thus legally discredited, the government finally moved against Gandar, long a nettlesome critic, and against the reporter who wrote the original series, Benjamin Pogrund...
...degree in ad ministration from the University of Michigan, or have written four books, or are given to such sublime reflections as: "I am never really happy unless I can get up in the morning and look at an ocean, a lake or a river; I get strength from looking at a moving body of wa ter." None. But a good many coaches may soon be moved by the resident intellectual of their profession. George Allen, in three seasons as head coach of the National Football League's Los Angeles Rams, has accomplished one of the most striking transformations...
...effeminate way. Moliere's Argan, bluntly put, is a madman. When asked why he persists in standing in the way of his daughter's love, he replies, "Because I'm king of my own castle and I do what I think fit." On stage his source of strength should be this single-minded devotion to his role as the father of the family and the hypochondria that springs from it. Instead, Goldfinger seems always to be squealing with delight or in protest; he seems to be playing at being Argan, but never quite getting inside...