Word: exert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...falling platforms, while the Treadmill ($235), a rubber mat on rollers with sidebar support, actually records the footage covered, if not inches lost. Gyrogym's Smartbel ($59.50), a 2-lb. dumbbell "with a mind of its own," generates surprisingly strong gyroscopic forces that cause the user to exert himself just as much as he would with a 110-lb. weight. The Skinny Dipper ($50), a V-shaped chaise, flattens out under the weight of the user, then bounces him back for more...
...struggle. And this demystification must be achieved in praxis by creating forms that remain open, unfinished, and that include the people and their abilities to analyze, debate, and take action. It is one thing to speak of the people's power and quite another to urge them to exert it. A revolutionary film does not use its audience as means of instrumenting the revolution; instead it openly offers itself as means to be used by the oppressed in clarifying their struggle. A revolutionary film-as oposed to propaganda film-remains an object, something that can be perceived critically...
...Peronists could well win. Lanusse, who spent four years in prison in Patagonia for his role in an abortive coup against Peron in 1951, is not likely to welcome any return to the old Peronism. A more immediate concern for Argentina is whether the Pink House will once again exert its old magic and persuade Lanusse, as it did his predecessors, to forget about a restoration of civilian rule...
Alangir called for international support for the new nation. "We want the great powers and the United Nations to exert their influence to prevent genocide in East Pakistan," he said Friday, "West Pakistani troops are using machine guns on unarmed civilians...
Harvard looked better in the second period, capitalized once on a five-on-three situation to exert its only sustained pressure of the game. Denver successfully killed its numerous penalties, however, and finally beat Durno for the game's only goal...