Word: depending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great deal of Coach Bruce Munro's title hopes depend on the stick play of sophomore players, who along with such seniors as Watts, Spruance, and Pete Sieglaff, have contributed heavily to the varsity's winning ways...
Picking up characters just when external events promise a crisis can make a writer's job easier because it guarantees a dramatic situation. In Autumn Garden, Lillian Hellman does not depend on circumstantial crisis. Instead she has placed ten people in a once-fashionable home outside New Orleans, and lets them develop the play by well-exposed attempts to define their relationships and to regear their lives. Almost everyone fails; only a European girl, Sophie, is young and tough enough to extricate herself...
Adding to the impact of the British hubbub was an Italian law prohibiting tobacco advertising entirely. Though Italy's cynical citizens assumed that the law was meant to protect the cigarettes produced by the state tobacco monopoly against competition from imported cigarettes (whose sales depend much more heavily on advertising), U.S. tobaccomen began to worry lest the U.S. Government take a cue from Britain and Italy. They found scant comfort in news that the U.S. Public Health Service has just decided to set up a panel to study the relationship between smoking and cancer...
...Three of our constant companions," wrote Martin, were "Fatigue, Hunger and Cold"; men ate birch bark, old shoes, pet dogs. "We kept a continual Lent as faithfully as ever any of the most rigorous of the Roman Catholics did and, depend upon it, we were sufficiently mortified." Yet given a small ration of beef and flour and a sack of straw, Martin and his colleagues "felt as happy as any other pigs that were no better off than ourselves." Such wit eased Martin's suffering, but he also had a sharp eye for the ironic moment or the dramatic...
These journals of opinion-and limited circulation-chronically lose money and depend on well-heeled readers and sympathizers to bail them annually out of the red. They would be hard put to survive even a modest postal rate increase-and the one under consideration is by no means modest. It would, for example, boost the Nation's annual mail bill from...