Word: exert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Both Chin and Hsieh said their group, which has close to 40 active members, will continue to work to educate the community about the experiences of Asian Americans in the United States. They will also exert pressure on the University to hire more Asian Aemrican professors and offer courses in Asian American studies...
...such atrocities, civilized people with good prose styles reach for the requisite quote from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Didion repeats the line from Kurtz's report to the International Society for the Suppression of Savage Customs: "By the simple exercise of our will we can exert a power for good practically unbounded." The U.S. embassy gives the author a more sophisticated version of this 19th century optimism. The exercise of will and power now reuires a public relations consultant. Says one embassy official: "We could come in militarily and shape the place up. That...
Brown has a beautiful line and moves his muscles in a cat-like stretching manner that rivets one's eyes to his flowing muscles. Similarly, Allen creates electric currents through her body without appearing to exert any effort. The beige unitards with blotches of black and red on the front merge dancers into the black set and gold lights. As the dance progresses we see them less as physical beings than as conglomerations of contracting muscles making waves. The concentrated experience of these two bodies rolling on the floor--as if it were the most natural motion possible--leaves...
Crews confined to the tanks exude and exert as much or more sweat and effort as teams on the water, without the feeling of the world sweeping past or the excitement of knowing that the boat has never gone as fast. They suffer for the sake of a distant goal and follow a schedule that monopolizes more of the athletes time over the course of a year than perhaps any other sport...
...United States has the possibility to exert effective and positive leverage on the Salvadoran government with military aid. The threat that such aid will be held back can force the regime in El Salvador to crack down on human rights abuses. But Reagan's certification decision should make it obvious that El Salvador can have its cake...