Word: stronger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Djakarta was alerted by the Sura-baja arms raid and reacted quickly. The army launched "territorial operations," occupying suspect villages and replacing village chiefs with military officers. But stronger measures were needed, and in June five battalions moved to launch sweeping search operations throughout South Blitar and its sandstone caves. In two months, they brought in 850 suspects, among them twelve members of the P.K.I.'s old Central Committee. They captured an arsenal of old bolt-action rifles, a few submachine guns and some homemade weapons. The army claimed that Oloan Hutapea, who took over the party...
Even if he's sometimes a hack, he's seldom a boob, He knows more about the issues, and has much stronger opinions about them, than the overwhelming majority of ordinary voters. He has seen and heard the candidates in person, even if through a smog of rhetoric. He is worried about the war and the riots and his own role in nominating a President. Inevitably, he values party loyalty and remembers long service. He reads the polls and weighs what he wants against...
Just one day after the Gallup poll showed Richard Nixon to be stronger against either Hubert Humphrey or Eugene McCarthy than is Nelson Rockefeller, the Harris poll published the opposite results. Later, in a joint statement, the two pollsters defended themselves and each other, and suggested that Rockefeller was ahead and gaining steadily with the people...
Lehner: We have other ideas that we think would be stronger at this point in time. For instance, one thing that we're playing with now is a guy sitting...
...that he is pursuing mutually exclusive goals. As he grants more power to workers, for example, he almost certainly will frighten away the investment capital that he needs to revitalize and modernize France's ailing economy. And by polarizing the French, he has tended to build higher and stronger the wall that separates his country into two hostile parts...