Word: stronge
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...youthful Bobby Jones (who played in his first Nationals at 14). But after getting to the semifinal round, Marlene's firm grip slipped; on the second hole, she took seven strokes in her match with Dorothy Kielty, a fellow Californian from Long Beach. Though Marlene came back strong on the last nine, she was down one on the 18th, and beaten. In the finals, tournament-wise Dorothy Kielty, winner of last year's Western, met her match. Mrs. Dorothy Germain Porter, 25-year-old housewife of Westmont, N.J., beat her 3 and 2, became the first mother...
...loved art, collected El Grecos, Tintorettos and Rubenses. A genial man, he liked to play cards (skat) and drink beer, but usually had to sneak away from his strong-willed wife Pauline to do it. His favorite opera, he always said, was one he finished in 1923 called Intermezzo, the story of a musician and his termagant spouse...
...minus 3 hours), a truck drove up and began pumping alcohol into the Viking II. Then came men in plastic suits to fill it with strong, corrosive hydrogen peroxide. The last fuel to enter the tanks was "lox" (liquid oxygen...
...type of organized religion which, because of certain implacable assumptions, claims not merely equality of life and opportunity, but dominance . . . [It] claims ... to be the only church of Christ . . . Bluntly, this means that Rome regards Protestantism as a perversion of Christianity. In every country where it is strong enough, the Roman Church will control, so far as it can, education, the laws concerning marriage and divorce, and regulations about morality generally, not only for its own communicants, but for the whole population...
...past two months, as they have each summer since the war, modern Romans and visitors have been swarming out to the Baths of Caracalla, but for a different reason. Three hundred and fifty thousand strong, they have gone to the majestic reddish brick ruins to see Rome's summer opera, one of the most dazzling sights, if not sounds, in the world...