Word: exert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Guimares said he feared that "the Americans may even send troops if the Portuguese ad...it defeat" and he urged the audience to "continue to exert pressure--in Congress and in the anti-Gulf action at Harvard--so that the U.S. will not continue to aid Portugal...
Powers said that most people on the Review are confident of their earning power and not likely to exert themselves primarily...
...students expecting to travel, still looking for employment or without definite plans increased to 27 per cent of the total. Students surveyed said they intended "'to subsist,' 'to relax,' and 'to grow up,'" and seemed "not as obsessed with security as were their fathers," shunning "those activities which exert an unusual amount of control over their dress, time, or lifestyle...
...Read added another goal for the Quakers at 4:08 in the final period, but the Local Line continued to exert pressure, and it finally broke through at 10:57 on a fine individual effort by McManama. After taking a pass from Hynes, McManama appeared to be snuffed out on the boards. But he broke past the Penn defenseman and caught the inside post from the face off circle...
This process will only stop when non-centrists win elections. And non-centrist candidates will win only when their supporters are willing to exert the effort necessary to elect them...