Word: exert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Should Exert Control...
...only possible cavil is that the actors occasionally seemed to exert themselves a little too much; the style seemed not quite effortless enough. But to delight a first night audience full of Brahmins who understood no French required a little exertion...
Because the use of computers "forces one to think in very precise terms," Oettinger believes that they may eventually exert the kind of unifying influence on all the disciplines that mathematics exerts on the natural sciences...
Because of the University's peculiar position in Cambridge, the butter posture is decidedly unfortunate. For Harvard could be a source of leadership, and is, by necessity, one of the city's major groups. McGeorge Bundy saw the point exactly: "I believe that universities can and should exert themselves energetically in helping to shape urban development in their neighborhoods and that those who do not act quickly and energetically before serious trouble occurs are likely to and themselves driven against their will into much more expensive action later on." In short, to protect its own interests, Harvard has to lead...
...such supermagnet has yet been built. For one thing, it will surely prove to be extremely violent: its field of 100,000 gauss will exert a force of six tons per sq. in. at the end of the coil. Another difficulty is that the coil will have to be kept near absolute zero, presumably by bathing it in liquid helium, whose high volatility makes it a nightmare to handle...