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Word: stronger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that Lindsay's election signals a comeback for the Republican Party from the disaster of 1964. The man Mr. Lindsay ran against was a product of the corrupt, inept and hopeless Democratic organization that has left the city in the stagnant position it finds itself in today. A stronger Democratic candidate certainly would have sent J.V.L. scurrying back to Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 19, 1965 | 11/19/1965 | See Source »

...rather build roads for Boy Scouts. I feel sorry for the lame, the weak, the ill and the stupid; they aren't going to run the country for you. What I'm trying to do is make a place where the smart will get smarter, the strong stronger, and the swift swifter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: ADVENTURE & THE AMERICAN INDIVIDUALIST | 11/19/1965 | See Source »

Fair enough-up to a point. No one would argue that a society's strength increases proportionately to the number of adventurers in its midst. But it is equally true, and much more relevant, that America is the stronger for its adventurers past, present-and future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: ADVENTURE & THE AMERICAN INDIVIDUALIST | 11/19/1965 | See Source »

...credible than his unsuspecting innocence. And the dice are conveniently loaded against marital sex, since Actress Tushingham's shrill, seriocomic strumpet is written and played in a manner guaranteed to subdue passion in any red-blooded youth. Most of the time, however, the characters in Leather Boys seem stronger than the pat fiction imposed upon them. In the hands of Director Furie and his exuberantly wayward cast, their lives unreel with a moment-to-moment immediacy that is funny, fascinating and human...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A British Threesome | 11/19/1965 | See Source »

...obvious that our interconnected systems must be made stronger," Swidler said. "But to revert to isolated, local systems would be a long step backwards...

Author: By Nancy H. Davis and Robert A. Rafsky, S | Title: Swidler Says FPC Unable To Overhaul Electric Grid | 11/15/1965 | See Source »

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