Word: stronger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Soft and subtle shades are worked onto the translucent paper in geometric blocks or bright floral patterns. The inner bamboo frame is as delicately engineered as one of Nervi's tilted arches. Although they look fragile, Reynolds' bangasa are stronger in the wind than regular umbrellas, which reliably invert just when wind and rain are heaviest...
Neither Johnson nor his former Senate colleague is about to engage in a public vendetta. As the President observed privately last week, Woodrow Wilson only aggravated his foreign-policy problems by denouncing antagonistic Senators as a "small band of willful men." In fact, there is far stronger popular support for Johnson's foreign policy than there ever was for Wilson's-whatever Bill Fulbright may think...
...Pawnbroker, self-conscious despite Rod Steiger's virtuoso performance. Ship of Fools, by the overrated Stanley Kramer, was saved by the performances of three foreign stars, Simone Signoret, Vivien Leigh and Oskar Werner. Nothing But a Man, on the other hand, was persuasively unpretentious: it took a stronger, warmer, more objective look at contemporary Negro life in the U.S. than any other film to date...
Died. General Thomas Dresser White, 64, Air Force Chief of Staff, from 1957 to 1961; of leukemia; in Washington. An unrelenting advocate of ever stronger air power who fought vainly for the Air Force's experimental B70 supersonic bomber, General White felt that rigid reliance on missiles was "tantamount to the Maginot Line" and that the theory of mutual deterrence gave a false sense of invulnerability. "The only safe strategy," he said, was "imbalance-with a vast preponderance on our side...
...still small company gulped, somehow got together enough money to pay off promptly. By cementing client confidence, this performance paved the way for rapid expansion. Swiss Re had become the world's biggest reinsurer by the outbreak of World War II, emerged from the war stronger than ever...