Word: strengthing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...troop strength in South Viet Nam reaches...
...taking any support from Javits can be a difficult chore, as O'Dwyer is learning. O'Dwyer is a veteran defender of civil rights cases, which he often took for little or no fee; he hopes to cut deeply into his opponent's strength among Negroes. His involvement in gunrunning to embattled Israeli freedom fighters in 1948 also gives him the hope of cracking Javits' near monopoly on; New York's more than 1.7 million Jewish votes. But O'Dwyer remains an all but certain loser to one of the best vote getters...
...during the war against Japan. Madame Mao has ordered drastic changes for the production. She has banished the traditional Chinese orchestra of wind and string instruments. The singers merely stand up before a lone grand piano and a percussion section and intone arias ("I Am Filled With Courage and Strength") while the action takes place offstage. The scene is bizarre because only two years ago the piano was condemned as an instrument for "bourgeois spiritual aristocrats." Now it is revered as a creation of "the laboring people...
...poll, taken in all Harvard and Radcliffe dining halls, showed Nixon's total dwarfed by the combination of the others. The Republican nominee drew his greatest strength from five Houses--Eliot, Winthrop, Quincy, Lowell, and Kirkland. Cleaver's strongest support came from Dudley, Adams and Dunster. He decisively defeated Nixon in the first...
Sione provides a source of brute strength for the scrum, but frequently carries the ball as well, and his 250-pound frame often takes three tacklers to bring down...