Word: strengthing
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...writes a bit about New Orleans, the city where he has lived (and was shot after chasing a mugger in 2004) for most of the past five years. Songs like The Tourist ("I'm just another tourist, checking out the slums"), written pre-Katrina, are well observed, but his strength is less as a broad social critic than as the creator of mini domestic dramas. Creatures of Little Faith is a barbed story of domestic misery, while Next Door Neighbour is reminiscent of the Kinks' Well Respected...
...science. His motives are clearly this or that, unsullied by psychologizing (except, of course, in the Freudian frontier yarns). Moreover a man cannot be hagridden; if he wants to get away from women, there is all outdoors to hide in. And he is not talk-ridden, for silence is strength. Says Sociologist Philip Rieff: "How long since you used your fists? How long since you called the boss an s.o.b.? The western men do, and they are happy men." --TIME, March...
...revolution in Israeli politics," Avi Dichter, former director of Shin Bet, Israel's domestic security agency, told me. "Our great national leader is crippled--and there is no crisis. Power is passed quietly. Our enemies don't stir. Our stock market barely moves. It says a lot for the strength of our democracy...
...goal coming into every game is to use our strength, our size, and our power to attack the basket,” Cusworth said...
Goffredo, together with freshman point guard Drew Housman (10.5 ppg), has helped Harvard turn an unknown quantity into a core strength...