Word: strengthing
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...posthumous consensus is that he gave the “silent majority” that were his fans the illusion of an America that no longer existed. Wyeth did his best-remembered work in the post-WWII 1940s, when America was just testing its strength as a world power. America had growing pains, and Wyeth was prescribing the opiate nostalgia...
...creation of new terrorists - indoctrination, fear, poverty and lack of education, foreign influences and sanctuaries across the border - are not also eliminated. Despite a steady increase of troops in Afghanistan from both the U.S. and NATO, the Taliban insurgency, all but defeated in 2001, has grown in strength and capacity. More of the same is not going to be enough: the year 2008 was the mostly deadly for foreign soldiers since the war began, despite the record number of troops...
...Hesse results are mirrored in September, Merkel is likely to form a coalition with the FDP, in many ways an easier proposition than governing in grand coalition as she has done since 2005. But the strength of the FDP will make it harder now for Merkel to act quickly to counter the growing economic and financial crisis. The grand coalition of CDU/CSU and SPD unites the biggest parties in the center and the left of the political spectrum and has until now wielded sufficient power to pass laws in the lower house of parliament and then rubber stamp them...
...Both sides traded shots after their separate announcements, but Gaza residents say the cease-fire seems to be gaining strength, and Palestinians have emerged from their refuges to assess the damage of Israel's three-week-long air and land assault against Hamas in Gaza...
...While convalescing, he painted The Trodden Weed, with his arm suspended in a sling from the ceiling. The boots that flatten the weed once belonged to Howard Pyle and were Betsy's Christmas gift to him in 1950. Wyeth wore them while taking long walks to regain his strength. He explained: "The painting came to signify to me a close relationship between critical illness and the refusal to accept it-a kind of stalking away...