Word: exert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last analysis, however, the insistence on the right of free alliance is wise because it is the policy of the Adenauer government. It is important to remember that Germany is now a sovereign nation which can make its own deals. While the Western nations continue to exert strong political, diplomatic and economic pressures on Germany, in the long run it can maintain an alliance with Germany only by paying strict attention to the policy if its government. At the moment, Adenauer is uncompromisingly opposed to neutralization...
...this doubt is unreasonable and uncharitable, we should have expected China to exert every possible influence upon Russia-I am persuaded that her influence in that quarter is by no means negligible-and we should have expected this to be done openly and in the eyes of the world. It has not been done openly. It has not been done...
Gunter feels Berlin students and teachers, since their university is practically a living protest against Communism, tend to form the most democratic academic body in West Germany. Fraternities and dueling societies, long the stronghold of nationalistic, anti-semitic, and aristocratic traditions, exert almost no influence on the Berlin campus. Of the few which exist despite non-recognition by the University, a number have abandoned all objectionable traits. Anti-Americanism, according to Gunter, is also sparse, since Berliners in general have felt particular gratitude toward the U.S. ever since the 1948 airlift. The University in particular is thankful for continued...
...atmosphere from its top better than surface-bound men can study it from its bottom. It can also observe meteors as they arrive from space, including the swarming "micro-meteors" that may be a serious obstacle to long-range space voyaging. These tiny, swift particles are believed to exert a powerful effect on the earth's weather, and they are almost impossible to observe from "down deep in the atmosphere...
...also does something to the opposition's morale. Russell's breaking out of nowhere to stretch out a ham hand and ruin a sure basket can take the heart out of the best players around. Once he got warmed up, he and his teammates hardly had to exert themselves last week to gobble up Loyola (65-55) and St. Mary's (69-48) on successive nights...