Word: exert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...issue has remained so important so long. Controversy has surrounded its planning, and still does despite last month's selection of a route through Cambridge. The attention to the highway is easily explained: it was always clear that wherever the Belt was put, it would cause heavy damage and exert a strong influence on the city's future...
Constantine may be successful in forcing the military to restore a civilian government that fulfills his own notion of "democracy." The U.S. should not be satisfied with the king's very limited concept; nor should this country rely solely upon him to exert influence on the military rulers...
...Democrats are unifled, Schlesinger believes, there is hope that either the Republicans will "rise to the occasion and nominate a reasonable candidate" or liberal Democrats will exert enough pressure so that a Democratic administration can slow down...
...United States government should exert its considerable influence immediately to prevent any executions by the Army regime and to pressure the regime into restoring the nation's constitutional processes. U.S. military aid to Greece amounts to about $100 million a year, and the Greek army is totally integrated into NATO...
...aimed at quick results or quick impact, such as the sit-in, the picket line, strike, march, vigil, teach-in or other forms of mass demonstration. The preparation of big programs, the conduct of prolonged negotiations, the organization of an extensive educational program, the establishment of an organization to exert constant pressure, are all avoided. The tactics can be described as "instantism." There is a chiliastic aspect--a dramatic action to be followed expectantly by dramatic reulsts. Here again there is a parallel to syndicalism and the I.W.W.--the use of force to correct a current grievance, perhaps someday...