Word: strengthing
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Under apartheid, large gatherings were forbidden. Church became the only place where blacks and coloreds could meet in numbers. Gospel music, with its themes of hope, strength and redemption, became their only legal form of protest and their only means of escape. "We sang to keep going," says Lucas Bok, the choir's musical director. "Singing was the only way to express yourself." That need spurred the creation of hundreds of gospel choirs in Soweto - the massive talent pool from which Mulovhedzi drew his recruits...
...more personal.”This year, Kuld is one four players to have played in all of Harvard’s games and has emerged as a leader on the team. Although he has had success playing inside, Kuld still believes his true strength is beach volleyball.“The indoor game has become very dependent on height,” the 6-foot-1 Kuld said. “The best teams and players are not only skilled but they’re huge. In beach volleyball you can get way with being shorter and still...
...said, the same impulse can be destructive after the fact. Summers also attacked the White House, saying that the Bush administration has given “insufficient weight to the interests of the middle class.” He said that lapses in moral leadership, raw power, and economic strength have caused the country to fall from a position of global strength, and he called for a “new philosophical approach to foreign policy.” When asked by a student which current presidential candidate he supports, Summers responded...
...physical fitness and education; even felons have become soldiering material as the armed forces pursues basic recruiting targets. The Army is paying huge re-enlistment bonuses in an effort to retain captains, who are quitting at alarming rates. It will take decades of investment to rebuild our military strength to pre-war levels...
...wasn't necessarily a great idea, but it would be relatively easy militarily and we wouldn't get stuck there. I think what we're seeing now is that it was a huge strategic mistake, that it is bleeding our nation of its resources and of our military strength and that it is really very different than what people thought it was going...