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Word: stronger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...much more of a passer than we had last year," Morton says. "Mark Johnson has a much stronger arm than [last year's starter and this year's reserve] Chris Rorke. He's the best pitcher on our baseball team, so he can really fire...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Morton: A Star Hidden by Gray Clouds | 10/15/1988 | See Source »

...second half, Holy Cross came out stronger, but nothing was going to stop the consistently-aggressive play of the Harvard freshmen, who all contributed largely to the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stickwomen Cross Up Crusaders, 5-1 | 10/12/1988 | See Source »

About 1,500 Gooney Birds still fly -- primarily on military and scientific missions. When Basler gets his hands on one that has been well maintained, he first lengthens the fuselage by 40 inches, replaces the original transverse spar supporting the wings with a newer, stronger one and adds NASA-designed wing tips to improve the craft's aerodynamics. Next come modern instruments, radar and communications equipment for the cockpit and then two 1,420-h.p. Pratt & Whitney turboprop-jet engines. Since January, Basler has filled orders for four jet-style DC-3s from air-freight companies. Demand has been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jet-Propelled Gooney Birds | 10/10/1988 | See Source »

Week by week, Bentsen is growing stronger as a campaigner; he is looser now and more comfortable with a TelePrompTer. He is beginning to campaign like a man who can't lose -- and he can't. Yet the Republicans continue to make ! headway. Bentsen says he was "bloody outraged" by what Bush did with the Pledge of Allegiance and felt that Dukakis should have come out punching. Many operatives think the Democrats still need to take the gloves off in Texas. "These guys," says a county chairman, "have to be a whole lot tougher in rebutting this bull." But Bentsen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tory Texan and the Indiana Kid Bentsen | 10/10/1988 | See Source »

...Solidarity must exist. And Solidarity must be legalized. However, it should not be the same Solidarity as in 1980. This time we must be cleverer, better, stronger to succeed. We want the existing official unions, about which we now have reservations, to remain trade unions. But these trade unions must be pluralistic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland Eventually We Will Win | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

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