Word: strengthing
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...when (as Naipaul is shrewd enough to realize) writers are judged on the basis of their personality more than their art. Even as he turned himself into a bespoke English gentleman, after all, while Pat became the obedient and self-denying Indian wife of legend, Naipaul's strength lay not just in the clarity of his observations but in the passion--the grief and terror and rage--that trembled just beneath them. When Pat finally died, in 1996, French tells us, her husband leaned against a car, weeping uncontrollably, as her ashes were scattered. He knew--such is his tragedy...
...finish shows he’s already comfortable competing at the collegiate level. The women’s freshman distance runners can also be encouraged by the results from the cross-country season from rookies like Jeanne Mack and Kailyn Kuzmuk. But neither side can underestimate the strength of the veterans. Captain Becky Christensen returns for her senior campaign and is hoping to build off last year’s success that included, among other accolades, All-America honors after finishing fourth at the NCAA Championships in the high jump, her first career indoor Heptagonal title, and an Olympic trials...
...What Obama calls strength might sound like a formula for contentiousness or even failure, especially when you consider what happened with George W. Bush's first foreign policy team, which had its share of big personalities too. So fraught with palace intrigue was that arrangement that then Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld refused to attend key meetings called by National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice. Secretary of State Colin Powell, for all his star power, was all but frozen out of the real decision-making?and the foreign leaders he visited knew it. And Vice President Dick Cheney was a power center...
...through her tenure on the Senate Armed Services Committee, and Gates, though he's never worked with Jones, knows him by reputation from their years at the Pentagon. Still far from clear is what role Joe Biden will play in this delicate arrangement. It was largely on the strength of his foreign policy credentials that Obama picked him to be Vice President. And the fact that he will be close at hand in the White House means Biden will certainly have the opportunity to weigh in on important policy questions. But no one expects...
...Dashishle, the pirate aboard the Sirius Star, concurred: "They just want the Saudi Arabians who own the ship to hear that the Shabab militia wanted to release the ship, because they receive money from some rich Saudis," he said. "But the Shabab doesn't have the strength to attack us and release the ship. It's just simple propaganda...