Word: strength
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...explained that Nixon should not tie American withdrawal to Saigon's schedule for increasing its military strength. "We'll never know whether the South Vietnamese are capable of defending themselves [until we say] 'we're getting out, my friends.' President Nixon has not yet grasped this...
...endorsed candidate who failed to win was Harvard Ed School student Francis X. Hayes. Though Hayes ran fifth in the initial count, he failed to pick up strength as weaker candidates were eliminated, and their votes redistributed according to the City's Proportional Representation electoral system...
...observers began analyzing the election returns, they seemed to agree on only one thing: the turnabout-achieved by only narrow margins in both races-reflected the popularity of individual CCA-endorsed candidates rather than any major increase in the CCA's overall voting strength. "Each [of the CCA councillors] made it on his own; they didn't run as a team," said one veteran city politician...
Harvard's freshman basketball team, on the-strength of individual talent, stayed within a few points of the Crimson varsity until late in the game last night, when a concerted team effort gave the varsity a 98-85 victory before almost 1000 enthusiastic fans in the Indoor Athletic Building...
...PEOPLE are talking about the Underground these days. It seems that once you've put a name to something, you have the power to understand it and to dissolve its strength into a variety of solutions ready to receive it. So it goes for the Underground. For the sociologists, it's a "subculture" with all sorts of appendages like new values and relevant commentaries. Hollywood and "Seventeen" magazine parade the "now-generation" and we get scene after slick page of how to be with whatever it is. Evidently, the Underground has made it: shunted off into its own little strata...